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List of forests in France

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A temperate forest in France

Metropolitan France contains a total of 16,900,000 hectares (65,000 sq mi) of tree coverage, with 13,800,000 hectares (53,000 sq mi) considered to be forestry by the National Forest Inventory (IFN). Of those 13,800,000 hectares (53,000 sq mi), 8,700,000 hectares (34,000 sq mi) consist of leafy forests while the remaining 5,100,000 hectares (20,000 sq mi) consist of evergreen forests.

The majority of forestry in French overseas departments is found in French Guiana, which contains 7,500,000 hectares (29,000 sq mi) of forests.

3,700,000 hectares (14,000 sq mi) of forests in France are publicly owned, with the remaining 10,100,000 hectares (39,000 sq mi) being privately owned. Two-thirds of privately owned forests are larger than 10 hectares (25 acres), and 48% are larger than 25 hectares (62 acres).

The largest forests in France by region are as follows:

Alsace

Aquitaine

Auvergne

Brittany

Burgundy

Centre

Champagne-Ardenne

Corsica

Franche-Comté

Île-de-France

Languedoc-Roussillon

Limousin

Lorraine

Midi-Pyrénées

Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Normandy

Lower Normandy

Upper Normandy

Pays de la Loire

Picardy

Poitou-Charentes

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Rhône-Alpes

Overseas

Guadeloupe

  • 650 km (390 km)

French Guiana

  • 74,500 km

Martinique

  • 403 km

Réunion

2512 km

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