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Forest area

    Forestlands cover 14341.5 thousand hectares or 9.2 percentage of the total area. Forest land includes 12188.6 thousand hectares or 85.0 percentage of forested land, 143.5 thousand hectares or 1.0 percentage of deforested land, 64.2 thousand hectares or 0.4 percentage of afforestation land, 743.3 thousand hectares or 5.2 percentage of forest reserve, 1201.9 thousand hectares or 8.4 percentage of other lands.

Figure 1. Percentage of land with forest resources

Table 1. Transformation of the Forest area /thousand.hec/

Classification of the National Integrated Land System

2017

2018

Difference /thousand.hec га/

IV

Forest area

14341.3

14341.5

0.2

1

Forested land

12188.9

12188.6

-0.3

2

Deforested land 

142.9

143.5

0.6

3

Afforestation land

65.0

64.2

-0.8

4

Forest reserve

743.4

743.3

-0.1

5

Other forest lands

1201.1

1201.9

0.8

    In 2018, 0.8 thousand hectares of arboriculture were removed, which transferred 1,000 hectares of arboriculture in Khalkhgol ​​soum of Dornod aimag to other forest areas. In Dornod and Selenge aimags, there has been a shift in the main categories of forest lands.

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