Botswana vs France: Forest area
Botswana
15.73 million hectares
in 2025
France
17.80 million hectares
in 2025
Botswana rank
40th
France rank
38th
Forest area over time
- Botswana
- France
How they compare
France currently reports 17.80 million hectares against 15.73 million hectares in Botswana, a difference of 2.06 million hectares.
That makes France's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Botswana ahead.
Botswana ranks 40th and France ranks 38th of 235 countries.
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About this data
Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems.