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Top 10 Most Forested Countries in Asia

Name the countries of Asia that have the highest percentage of forest cover.
According to CCI_LC data via FAOStat. 2020 data.
Not counting Russia
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Last updated: June 24, 2023
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First submittedJune 19, 2017
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Country
86.0
Brunei
76.8
Bhutan
66.5
Malaysia
66.4
Japan
62.2
North Korea
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Country
61.7
Indonesia
61.5
Taiwan
48.9
South Korea
48.7
Nepal
48.7
Georgia
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Level 68
Jun 19, 2017
Surprised myself and got all 10 with 40 seconds remaining!
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Level 70
Jun 19, 2017
Is there anything but forest in Siberia?! Even including the deforsted European part, still about 50% of the Russiam area are forested.
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Level ∞
Jun 20, 2017
Added a caveat that Russia is not included.
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Level 75
Sep 22, 2020
Yeah, why omit Russia? I always find it interesting when Russia is included, but only taking into account the part that pertains to the quiz.
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Level 86
Oct 1, 2017
And why is it not included?
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Level 43
Oct 2, 2017
Europe Maybe?
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Level 86
Oct 2, 2017
The Asian part of Russia is not in Europe, and it may feature millions of km² of forest, so no, I don't think it should be omitted. On the other hand, New Guinea should be excluded from Indonesia.
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Level 79
Feb 18, 2021
The Indonesian part of New Guinea is in Asia
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Level 71
Nov 15, 2022
Politically only. Geographically it is in Oceania.
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Level 59
Jun 20, 2017
Japan?!
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Level 59
Oct 2, 2017
Japan has had nationwide forestry programs for centuries in order to limit deforestation.
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Level 82
May 1, 2018
Most of the interior of Honshu is heavily forested - the major cities mostly run in a band along the southeastern coast.
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Level 75
May 10, 2020
I was surprised by this, too. Good to know.
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Level 18
May 13, 2020
Although it's small, it's based off on percentages and not land mass.
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Level ∞
Jun 24, 2023
The Land Viewer for Japan is very interesting.

There are huge built up areas that are similar in size to the total cropland. But forests fill up most the country.

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Level 57
Jul 12, 2017
Great quiz! Happened to see the FAO Forest statistics this morning and made almost a similar quiz of European nations, Russia included. Only then realized the similarity to your Asian quiz. You are very welcome to check out my quiz!
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Level 65
Oct 1, 2017
Finished with 1 second left
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Level 86
Oct 1, 2017
Same for me, I thought of South Korea just in time. By the way, are there any figures for North Korea?
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Level 30
Oct 3, 2017
Don't have figures, but I know Korea as a whole was heavily logged during Japanese colonialism. Since then, North Korea is famous for being very over harvested and scoured for food, and as a result its mountains are mostly bare, unlike the South where they've replanted.
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Level 78
Oct 1, 2017
It's been some years since I studied this, but unless the situation has changed a great deal since (which I seriously doubt), the UN Food and and Agriculture Organization (FAO, the data source) passively conveys whatever junk data countries provide. In Asia, this was especially apparent for Burma / Myanmar, where in spite of widespread unrestrained logging, the forest area of the country was magically expanding every year. Remote sensing is beginning to allow some honesty, though still at a crude scale, and I doubt that FAO (or any other UN organizations) are utilizing it. (They don't want to upset member nations.)
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Level 56
May 10, 2020
Yes, the numbers for most contries are very suspicious, probably a lot of plantations are counted in.
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Level ∞
Jun 24, 2023
The FAO now offers three different data sources. The one we're using has a Viewer so hopefully your concerns are now assuaged.
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Level 86
Oct 1, 2017
I hope that New Guinea is excluded from Indonesia's count, since that island is not in Asia.
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Level 65
Oct 1, 2017
It's hard to imagine that Japan has a single square meter without people in it.
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Level 49
Oct 1, 2017
See link:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6242873,142.6519269,16.42z

I find it hard to believe that anyone lives in a lake. (Keep in mind that Japan is not the same as Tokyo.)

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Level 42
Oct 1, 2017
When I saw that North Korea wasn't on here, I didn't even bother with South Korea.

9/10 is good enough I suppose.

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Level 66
Oct 2, 2017
Japan? JAPAN?!
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Level 71
Oct 2, 2017
That is including 'Bonsai'
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Level 80
Jan 20, 2018
It's interesting that a lot of densely populated countries are on this list. I suppose it's because everyone is packed into a few large cities and the rest is wilderness and small villages.
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Level 75
Apr 2, 2019
Where is Bahrain and its one big tree!?
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Level 63
May 11, 2020
Very, very surprised to learn that countries with a high population density like Japan and South Korea appear here.
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Level 76
Nov 15, 2022
I guess it's because the inhabitable mountains are covered in trees
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Level 73
May 12, 2020
Even when I only had two answers still to get, I didn't even bother trying Japan and South Korea because I "knew" they'd be wrong :-(
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Level 18
May 13, 2020
The answer are based off of percentages and not land mass, so picture the small countries that have quite a bit of forest compared to their size.

I gotta admit, tho, I didn't see South Korea coming.

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Level 66
Jun 15, 2020
Got Vietnam at the last second!
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Level 48
Nov 24, 2020
What about India
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Level 79
Feb 18, 2021
Got all in 27 seconds
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Level 73
May 17, 2021
Anyone else from Brunei here?
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Level 40
May 30, 2021
I think you should definitely put Russia. The title says ''Countries in Asia'', not ''Asian Countries''
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Level 43
Nov 15, 2022
Completed with two seconds remaining!
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Level 58
Nov 15, 2022
Bhutan and South Korea surprised me. The first one is so mountainous that I didn't expect that much forest and the second one is so densely populated that I thought most less urban area would be farmland.
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Level 66
Nov 15, 2022
Same here. I got South Korea, but that was just because there were a bunch in the surrounding region.
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Level 68
Jun 24, 2023
I couln't find the source online for the new data, but I have to say the absence of Laos in the first countries by forest coverage is very strange, since in 2011 according to The World Factbook it was 71,6%.
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Level 70
Dec 18, 2023
Yeah, this was my thought too. Laos was one of the first countries I tried given how it's notable for being very forested. It definitely should be on here realistically.
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Level 35
Jun 29, 2023
wow,,,,malaysia...
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Level 55
Aug 27, 2023
I'm really confused about Georgia, I thought it was mostly mountains
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Level 65
Dec 18, 2023
The southern Appalachians aren't that high
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Level 65
Dec 18, 2023
I'm surprised countries in Indochina didn't enter the list.
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Level 89
Dec 20, 2023
Weird when you consider how densely populated some of these are, but how barren the thinly populated ones are.
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Level 35
Dec 22, 2023
Expected Vietnam , Thailand, and Laos to enter the list