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15.4.2a Mountain green cover area: Total; Land Cover: MGCI β€” Value by country

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Countries reporting
170
Highest
4.18 million km2
Russian Federation
Lowest
0.7 km2
British Virgin Islands
Median
15,288 km2
Years covered
22
2000–2021
Data points
1,236

What the numbers show

15.4.2a Mountain green cover area: Total; Land Cover: MGCI β€” Value is currently reported for 170 countries. The highest value is 4.18 million km2 in Russian Federation; the lowest is 0.7 km2 in British Virgin Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 15,288 km2, and the mean is 110,947 km2.

Over the past decade 10 countries rose and 148 fell. The largest increase was in Western Sahara (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in Niger (down 13.6%).

15.4.2a Mountain green cover area: Total; Land Cover: MGCI β€” Value: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Russian Federation 4.18 million km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
2 China, mainland 3.58 million km2 2021 down 2.0% flat
3 Mexico 907,988 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
4 Indonesia 553,736 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
5 Peru 546,435 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
6 Ethiopia 524,322 km2 2021 down 1.1% flat
7 Brazil 494,950 km2 2021 down 0.0% flat
8 Mongolia 449,901 km2 2021 down 0.1% flat
9 India 408,144 km2 2021 down 1.2% flat
10 South Africa 384,214 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
11 Australia and New Zealand 360,591 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
12 Myanmar 325,812 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
13 Colombia 292,851 km2 2021 down 1.2% flat
14 Madagascar 234,389 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
15 Australia 230,892 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
16 Chile 224,597 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
17 Spain 222,641 km2 2021 down 0.9% rising
18 Afghanistan 221,378 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
19 Papua New Guinea 203,430 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
20 Kazakhstan 182,498 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
21 Japan 156,840 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
22 Angola 154,143 km2 2021 down 1.0% flat
23 Kyrgyzstan 145,583 km2 2021 down 0.5% flat
24 Thailand 144,525 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
25 Mozambique 143,533 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
26 Kenya 134,948 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
27 New Zealand 129,697 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
27 Mayotte 43.3 km2 2021 down 1.4% flat
28 Italy 125,564 km2 2021 down 1.6% falling
28 Montserrat 25.5 km2 2021 down 8.9% falling
29 Morocco 120,241 km2 2021 down 1.8% flat
29 Cook Islands 12.8 km2 2021 unchanged flat
30 Pakistan 119,944 km2 2021 down 1.5% flat
31 Zimbabwe 109,321 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
32 Algeria 107,725 km2 2021 down 3.1% flat
33 Ecuador 106,560 km2 2021 down 1.2% flat
34 France 105,482 km2 2021 up 0.4% flat
35 Philippines 104,627 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
36 Nepal 100,244 km2 2021 down 2.6% flat
37 Cameroon 92,514 km2 2021 down 0.5% flat
38 Malaysia 92,040 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
39 Namibia 90,612 km2 2021 down 2.8% flat
40 Yemen 78,568 km2 2021 down 1.8% flat
41 Romania 75,623 km2 2021 down 1.0% flat
42 Honduras 72,352 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
43 Zambia 69,007 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
44 Tajikistan 66,460 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
45 Nigeria 65,028 km2 2021 down 0.5% flat
46 Greece 60,172 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
47 Guinea 55,443 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
48 Sweden 52,766 km2 2021 up 2.1% flat
49 Georgia 51,958 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
50 Uzbekistan 50,985 km2 2021 down 1.8% flat
51 Austria 50,571 km2 2021 down 0.5% flat
52 Sudan 49,246 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
53 Uganda 46,807 km2 2021 down 1.2% flat
54 Guatemala 46,456 km2 2021 down 2.3% flat
55 Eritrea 45,042 km2 2021 down 2.1% flat
56 Somalia 42,684 km2 2021 down 3.1% flat
57 Bulgaria 41,428 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
58 Malawi 40,669 km2 2021 down 1.9% flat
59 Azerbaijan 39,382 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
60 Serbia 38,165 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
61 South Sudan 37,346 km2 2021 down 0.1% flat
62 Iraq 36,542 km2 2021 down 1.1% flat
63 Bhutan 35,836 km2 2021 down 1.0% flat
64 Bosnia and Herzegovina 33,971 km2 2021 up 0.6% flat
65 Nicaragua 30,348 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
66 Republic of Korea 29,051 km2 2021 down 1.7% flat
67 Lesotho 25,964 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
68 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 25,529 km2 2021 down 1.0% flat
69 Switzerland 25,404 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
70 Slovakia 24,768 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
71 Panama 23,233 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
72 Armenia 23,078 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
73 Saudi Arabia 22,855 km2 2021 down 6.0% falling
74 Costa Rica 22,229 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
75 Ukraine 20,924 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
76 Portugal 20,616 km2 2021 down 5.6% falling
77 Guyana 19,917 km2 2021 down 0.1% flat
78 Tunisia 19,699 km2 2021 down 2.9% flat
79 Chad 19,460 km2 2021 up 0.9% flat
80 Turkmenistan 19,301 km2 2021 down 2.2% flat
81 Czechia 18,794 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
82 Dominican Republic 17,331 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
83 North Macedonia 16,763 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
84 Cambodia 15,682 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
85 Iceland 15,651 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
86 Albania 14,925 km2 2021 down 1.5% flat
87 Croatia 14,600 km2 2021 down 1.2% flat
88 Rwanda 13,415 km2 2021 down 4.2% falling
89 Burundi 13,229 km2 2021 down 1.9% flat
90 Poland 13,225 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
91 Haiti 13,221 km2 2021 down 1.1% flat
92 Slovenia 13,194 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
93 Eswatini 11,934 km2 2021 down 1.2% flat
94 El Salvador 10,432 km2 2021 down 2.8% flat
95 Solomon Islands 9,202 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
96 Gabon 9,105 km2 2021 down 0.1% flat
97 Congo 8,630 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
98 Suriname 8,582 km2 2021 down 0.0% flat
99 Sri Lanka 8,552 km2 2021 down 4.5% falling
100 New Caledonia 8,277 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
101 Montenegro 8,230 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
102 Cuba 8,085 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
103 Sierra Leone 7,042 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
104 Lebanon 6,988 km2 2021 down 5.0% falling
105 Mali 6,791 km2 2021 down 2.8% flat
106 Central African Republic 6,359 km2 2021 down 0.1% flat
107 Oman 6,315 km2 2021 down 3.6% flat
108 Liberia 5,410 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
109 Ghana 5,075 km2 2021 down 0.6% flat
110 Djibouti 4,789 km2 2021 down 11.0% falling
111 Vanuatu 4,610 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
112 Jamaica 4,384 km2 2021 down 1.0% flat
113 Togo 4,290 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
114 Botswana 4,086 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
115 Jordan 3,954 km2 2021 down 8.2% falling
116 Fiji 3,780 km2 2021 down 0.1% flat
117 Libya 3,659 km2 2021 up 0.4% flat
118 Equatorial Guinea 3,620 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
119 Belize 3,490 km2 2021 down 0.1% flat
120 Cyprus 2,961 km2 2021 down 1.4% flat
121 Hungary 2,850 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
122 Paraguay 2,528 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
123 Ireland 2,517 km2 2021 down 1.3% falling
124 Palestine, State of 2,335 km2 2021 down 7.5% falling
125 Puerto Rico 2,192 km2 2021 down 1.0% flat
126 Finland 2,092 km2 2021 up 8.6% rising
127 Bangladesh 1,394 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
128 Niger 1,347 km2 2021 down 13.6% falling
129 Samoa 1,271 km2 2021 unchanged flat
130 French Polynesia 1,045 km2 2021 unchanged flat
131 Comoros 875.4 km2 2021 down 0.7% flat
132 Mauritania 847.5 km2 2021 down 12.2% falling
133 Belgium 766.2 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
134 RΓ©union 637.3 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
135 Benin 629.1 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
136 French Guiana 620.6 km2 2021 up 0.0% flat
137 Brunei Darussalam 488.2 km2 2021 down 0.0% flat
138 Andorra 414.1 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
139 Mauritius 392.9 km2 2021 down 0.5% flat
140 Guadeloupe 319.2 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
141 Senegal 286.1 km2 2021 down 0.1% flat
142 Trinidad and Tobago 255.2 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
143 Burkina Faso 220 km2 2021 down 1.6% flat
144 Faroe Islands 219.8 km2 2021 up 0.1% flat
145 Uruguay 180.4 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
146 Martinique 161.7 km2 2021 down 0.8% flat
147 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 146.8 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
148 Liechtenstein 126.4 km2 2021 down 0.9% flat
149 Egypt 114 km2 2021 down 5.6% falling
150 China, Hong Kong SAR 101.6 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
151 Saint Lucia 92.4 km2 2021 down 0.5% flat
152 Grenada 79.1 km2 2021 down 0.4% flat
153 Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha 69.1 km2 2021 down 1.3% flat
154 Isle of Man 55 km2 2021 unchanged flat
155 Luxembourg 47.1 km2 2021 down 0.2% flat
156 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 37.2 km2 2021 down 0.3% flat
157 Northern Mariana Islands 34.5 km2 2021 unchanged flat
158 United Arab Emirates 34.1 km2 2021 up 7.2% rising
159 American Samoa 33.2 km2 2021 unchanged flat
160 San Marino 19.7 km2 2021 unchanged falling
161 Guam 11.7 km2 2021 unchanged flat
162 Tonga 6.9 km2 2021 unchanged flat
163 Barbados 4.1 km2 2021 down 2.4% falling
164 Christmas Island 2.5 km2 2021 unchanged flat
165 United States Virgin Islands 1.2 km2 2021 unchanged falling
166 Western Sahara 0.8 km2 2021 up 100.0% volatile
167 British Virgin Islands 0.7 km2 2021 unchanged flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
15.4.2a Mountain green cover area: Total; Land Cover: MGCI β€” Value
Unit
km2
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
206 places, 1,236 data points, 2000–2021
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