District-wise Forest Cover - Karnataka

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District Geographic
Area
(in km sq.)
 

           Forest

Cover   (in km

sq.)

 Scrub  
(in km sq.)
Dense Open Total Percent
Bagalkot 6,575 225 159 384 5.84 222
Bangalore Rural 5,815 338 498 836 14.38 261
Bagalore City 2,190 109 53 162 7.40 28
Belgaum 13,415 836 328 1,164 8.68 465
Bellary 8,450 215 646 861 10.19 224
Bidar 5,448 128 28 156 2.86 18
Bijapur 10,494 166 12 178 1.70 5
Chamrajnagar 5,101 1,098 1,470 2,568 50.34 197
Chikmaglur 7,201 3,068 486 3,554 49.35 51
Chitradurg 8,440 131 303 434 5.14 473
Kannad Dakshin 4,560 2,969 1,078 4,047 88.75 2
Davengeri 5,924 394 378 772 13.03 257
Dharwar 4,260 272 132 404 9.48 25
Gadag 4,656 65 105 170 3.65 68
Gulbarga 16,224 299 174 473 2.92 50
Hassan 6,814 1,053 272 1,325 19.45 96
Haveri 4,823 213 237 450 9.33 52
Kodagu 4,102 2,608 400 3,008 73.33 2
Kolar 8,223 189 386 575 6.99 281
Koppal 7,189 43 2 45 0.63 34
Mandya 4,961 361 155 516 10.40 134
Mysore 6,854 809 340 1,149 16.76 43
Raichur 6,827 112 0 112 1.64 14
Shimoga 8,477 3,117 1,356 4,473 52.77 36
Tumkur 10,597 281 417 698 6.59 206
Udipi 3,880 555 115 670 17.27 0
Kannad Uttar 10,291 6,502 1,305 7,807 75.86 1
Total 191,791 26,156 10,835 36,991 19.29 3,245

  Source   :   Forest Survey of India, Dehradun. State of forest report 2001. Dehradun, FSI, 2002. p.66.