France's largest forested area is not in Europe but in South America. It is indeed in the overseas department that we find the largest French forest in Guyane, the Amazon jungle with more than 8 million hectares.
Across the entire metropolitan area, forests represented approximately 17 million hectares in 2021. Nouvelle-Aquitaine was the region where the largest forest cover in France was found, with nearly 2.9 million hectares of forest.
The overseas islands and departments were, in view of their small surface area, the regions with the least forest area.
Forest area in metropolitan France and overseas regions in 2021
(in hectares)
The data for metropolitan areas come from different documents published by the same source.
*Data for French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion, and Mayotte are from 2020.
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