Area of Forest Land

2018-1-8 | Geography |

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Area of forest land by prefecture. Because the area of forest land is, to a degree, proportional to the area of land, the greater the area of land of a prefecture, the greater the area of forest land. The area of forest land in Hokkaido, ranked first, is 5,540,000ha (55,384 sq. km) which is approximately 1ha of forest land per person.

THe area of forest land in Tokyo, ranked lowest, is 79,646ha (796 sq. km) which is a mere 0.006ha of forest land per person. In other words, while in Hokkaido, there is 100 meter square of forest land per person, there is only 8 meter square of forest land per person in Tokyo, with the smallest rate of forest land.

AREA OF FOREST LAND

Source　Forestry Agency's Statistical Information (2012)

Rank	Prefectures	Area of Forest Land		Standard Score
Rank	Prefectures	Amount	per 1	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Hokkaido	55,425,330,000平方m	10,151.16	79.06
2	Iwate	11,724,630,000平方m	8,998.18	74.34
3	Kochi	5,967,830,000平方m	7,935.94	70.00
4	Akita	8,395,360,000平方m	7,897.80	69.84
5	Shimane	5,255,890,000平方m	7,434.07	67.94
6	Yamagata	6,685,930,000平方m	5,803.76	61.28
7	Miyazaki	5,898,780,000平方m	5,238.70	58.97
8	Nagano	10,696,730,000平方m	5,017.23	58.06
9	Fukushima	9,754,560,000平方m	4,971.74	57.88
10	Aomori	6,347,850,000平方m	4,702.11	56.77
11	Tottori	2,589,260,000平方m	4,448.90	55.74
12	Gifu	8,616,360,000平方m	4,180.67	54.64
13	Yamanashi	3,476,890,000平方m	4,080.86	54.23
14	Tokushima	3,138,630,000平方m	4,044.63	54.08
15	Fukui	3,123,130,000平方m	3,908.80	53.53
16	Oita	4,534,920,000平方m	3,826.94	53.19
17	Wakayama	3,630,410,000平方m	3,674.50	52.57
18	Niigata	8,569,350,000平方m	3,651.19	52.47
19	Kagoshima	5,842,260,000平方m	3,456.96	51.68
20	Yamaguchi	4,374,070,000平方m	3,056.65	50.04
21	Ehime	4,011,140,000平方m	2,834.73	49.14
22	Toyama	2,839,820,000平方m	2,624.60	48.28
23	Kumamoto	4,638,330,000平方m	2,566.87	48.04
24	Okayama	4,838,080,000平方m	2,499.01	47.76
25	Ishikawa	2,864,130,000平方m	2,462.71	47.61
26	Hiroshima	6,121,330,000平方m	2,149.34	46.33
27	Gunma	4,241,710,000平方m	2,129.37	46.25
28	Nara	2,847,910,000平方m	2,048.86	45.92
29	Mie	3,726,000,000平方m	2,025.00	45.82
30	Miyagi	4,179,240,000平方m	1,797.52	44.89
31	Tochigi	3,501,140,000平方m	1,757.60	44.73
32	Nagasaki	2,425,600,000平方m	1,722.73	44.59
33	Shiga	2,042,500,000平方m	1,443.46	43.45
34	Shizuoka	5,010,070,000平方m	1,341.38	43.03
35	Saga	1,111,150,000平方m	1,318.09	42.93
36	Kyoto	3,426,040,000平方m	1,305.16	42.88
37	Hyogo	5,606,640,000平方m	1,006.40	41.66
38	Kagawa	875,770,000平方m	885.51	41.16
39	Okinawa	1,045,800,000平方m	742.23	40.58
40	Ibaraki	1,875,080,000平方m	637.13	40.15
41	Fukuoka	2,218,010,000平方m	436.19	39.33
42	Aichi	2,190,350,000平方m	294.92	38.75
43	Chiba	1,594,650,000平方m	257.41	38.60
44	Saitama	1,212,610,000平方m	168.14	38.23
45	Kanagawa	949,150,000平方m	104.68	37.97
46	Osaka	579,690,000平方m	65.46	37.81
47	Tokyo	793,820,000平方m	60.00	37.79
	Japan	250,813,900,000平方m	1,966.94