Sudan vs Turkey: Forest area

Sudan

21.98 million hectares

in 2025

Turkey

22.81 million hectares

in 2025

Sudan rank

30th

Turkey rank

28th

Forest area over time

Sudan
Turkey

How they compare

Turkey currently reports 22.81 million hectares against 21.98 million hectares in Sudan, a difference of 825,400 hectares.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 36 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Sudan ahead.

Sudan ranks 30th and Turkey ranks 28th of 235 countries.

Individual pages

Forest area in Sudan
Forest area in Turkey
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Forest area
Unit: hectares
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 235 places, 8,460 data points, 1990–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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.