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List of forests 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.

A temperate forest in France

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 edit

Aquitaine edit

Auvergne edit

Brittany edit

Burgundy edit

Centre edit

Champagne-Ardenne edit

Corsica edit

Franche-Comté edit

Île-de-France edit

Languedoc-Roussillon edit

Limousin edit

Lorraine edit

Midi-Pyrénées edit

Nord-Pas-de-Calais edit

Normandy edit

Lower Normandy edit

Upper Normandy edit

Pays de la Loire edit

Picardy edit

Poitou-Charentes edit

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur edit

Rhône-Alpes edit

Overseas edit

Guadeloupe edit

  • 650 km2 (390 km2)

French Guiana edit

  • 74,500 km2

Martinique edit

  • 403 km2

Réunion edit

2512 km2

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