District-wise Forest Cover - Assam

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District Geographic
Area
(in km sq.)
 

           Forest

Cover   (in km

sq.)

 Scrub  
(in km sq.)
Dense Open Total Percent
Barpeta 3,245 667 71 738 22.74 0
Bongoigoan 2,510 517 114 631 25.14 2
Cachar 3,786 1,034 1,015 2,049 54.12 18
Darrang 3,481 270 202 472 13.56 1
Dhemaji 3,237 175 58 233 7.20 0
Dhubari 2,798 352 166 518 18.51 0
Dibhrugarh 3,381 260 479 739 21.86 0
Goalpara 1,824 158 165 323 17.71 1
Golaghat 3,502 142 310 452 12.91 0
Hailakandi 1,327 425 251 676 50.94 9
Jorhat 2,851 142 420 562 19.71 0
Kamrup 4,345 899 530 1,429 32.89 52
Karbianglong 10,434 4,935 3,037 7,972 76.40 106
Karimganj 1,809 338 287 625 34.55 24
Kokrajhar 3,169 1,203 161 1,364 43.04 1
Lakhimpur 2,277 147 109 256 11.24 2
Morigaon 1,704 62 42 104 6.10 2
North Cachar Hills 4,888 1,750 2,508 4,258 87.11 1
Naogaon 3,831 490 304 794 20.73 9
Nalbari 2,257 221 46 267 11.83 0
Sibsagar 2,668 203 446 649 24.33 0
Sonitpur 5,324 471 583 1,054 19.80 0
Tinshukia 3,790 969 580 1,549 40.87 0
Total 78,438 15,830 11,884 27,714 35.33 224
   Source   :   Forest Survey of India, Dehradun. State of forest report 2001. Dehradun, FSI, 2002. p.46.