Countries with the Most Forest

Surprised me that Australia was so high.

A bush is not a tree. I was surprised too.

"The bush" is what we call the forest, sillie

Brazil lower...they have this thing called the Amazon Rainforest...you may look into that.

Oh irony...Pearls before swine.

jd doesn't get it.

I can't stop thinking about bush

Well that explains it very well ..........

I'm surprised by how much bush Brazil has. I thought they tried to get rid of it all.

I know Oz has a rain forest, not sure how big it is though, but imagine it must be pretty big for there to be a rain forest eco system

We have loads of rainforest, as well as alpine forests, dry sclerophyll forests, mangroves... Australia is vast, so even though a lot of the central mainland is desert, there are huge coastal forests. And Tasmania, of course.

I thought Papua New Guinea was higher....

Papua New Guinea is a small country, and this is by absolute area. If 100% of it was forest, then it would come 18th.

me too and I thought maybe Madagascar would make the cut, as well.

If we were talking by percentage of landmass, I'm sure they would, but PNG is not quite half a million square kilometres.

I now see Jerry928 has exactly that quiz and PNG indeed makes it, but not Madagascar.

Australi has the Daintree Rainforest!

yeah, it is mostly SAVANNA and DESERT, i dont hear 'forest' anywhere! ⁉️

You can also try to guess countries with the greatest percentage of forest cover here.

i already made that quiz 2 years ago lol

How is 4th low? Canada and Russia are bigger than the US and are covered in forests, and Brazil has the Amazon and is a huge country. US is exactly where I would expect it to be.

The northeastern United States used to be almost all forest, and the Pacific Northwest still has quite a bit, but the majorty of those old forests in the east have been clear cut to make way for farming and urban sprawl. The midwest is all flat unforested plains. And farther west you've got rocky mountains in the north and large deserts in the south. The only reason the US makes the list is because it's such a big country.

Also, Alaska.

Don't forget the Appalachians in the east and southeast, the forests of northern Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as the Ozarks which are pretty much all forest in southern MO and northern AR...oh, and the swamps of LA and the piney woods of east TX. When you add all the smaller groups together it makes for a lot of wooded areas in this big country.

I guess you're right. Even around Washington and the megalopolis that extends all the way up to New York, there is greenery everywhere and lots of trees. But does that count as "forest?" (if all that greenery is bisected by highways and parking lots and so on.) Not sure.

Hey quizmaster! I already made a very similar quiz to this!

I just missed USA, lol

Is Kazakhstan the country with the least forrest compared to it's size?

or maybe the vatican?

I expect a country in North Africa or the Middle East would claim that distinction amongst large countries, but I don't know. Also Monaco and the Vatican City have zero forest, so its hard to beat that.

actually, even if it does not qualify to be a forest, quite a lot of vatican's area is occupied by plant/trees. They're called Vatican Gardens, just try and have a look on gmaps

Surprised to see Argentina so high up. I suppose like some of the other leaders it mainly makes it due to its immense size. From travelling pretty extensively there I can say you don't see a great deal of forest. It's either pampas, dry Andean highlands, desert or, in southern Patagonia, steppe and subpolar tundra. There are of course forests in the northeast (you see no shortage going to Iguazu) and nestled in amongst the lower slopes of the Andes, but I wouldn't have thought it would be quite that much. That number suggests around a third of the country's landmass is forested.

Never thought of China (even though it's big) has that much forest. Just thought of the skyscrapers... thousands of them

They are building so many tree houses though that the vast natural skyscraper forests are cleared off the landscape.

Based on the comments you've left and the quizzes you make, you seem like a salty Canadian who resents America.

2. Definition of Salty: (of language or humour) down-to-earth; coarse. "her wild ways and salty language shocked the local gentry" synonyms: lively, vigorous, spirited, colourful, sparkling;

"Salty" is internet slang for "sour", or less ambiguously "enraged".

He could also be referring to the fact that most Canadians have a large amount of saline in their bodies.

Probably all that "Canadian Bacon"

You've missed off Nottingham...

Should this be renamed "biggest countries of the world not in the middle east"?

Get out of the city and have a drive around - you'll see millions of acres of forest

I don't know what the source for this quiz was, but according to the UN FAO, Sudan has nearly 700,000 sq km of forest, which would put it in 12th place.

Really hoped that Canada would, just once, top a list on Jetpunk. Alas, not today. Annoyed by how many of these I guessed on the opposite quiz (least-forested countries). I wonder if this might be one of the few occasions where North Korea leads South, due to lack of urban development, but I expect they aren't very forthcoming with that information since they want people to think of them as technologically developed. Keep dreaming, North Korea.

The USA tends to excel in areas where being bigger is an advantage. If you look at things where being bigger is a disadvantage, for example least murders, then the USA comes in at about 187th.

North Korea is among top 10 producers of hops, unlike the south.

Burma should work for Myanmar

I had the same problem

Yeah, I just had the same issue. I understand if we are being correct and using its proper name but most quizes allow you to use both. The likes of "Holland" is normally acceptable for 'The Netherlands' so it does seem a bit harsh. Maybe QM just missed the type-in.

Please accept Burma

LOVE THIS QUIZ <3

Allow Burma for Myanmar please!!

Still no Burma. :-)

Great quiz! Forests are the lungs of our globe. Take a look how FAOSTAT ranks European nations, and check out my quiz: "MOST FOREST COVERED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES - BY % OF TOTAL AREAS;

I had been made the similar quiz:countries with largest forest cover