Continental South and South East Asia -
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| CONTINENTAL SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST ASIA STATISTICS | ||||||||||
| Land area: 6,030,480 km2 | Area of forest: 1,680,561.0 km2 | % Land area forested: 27.9 | ||||||||
| Forest Type | Area Protected (km2) in IUCN Categories I-VI: | Total Forest (km2) | Total Protected (km2) | % Protected | ||||||
| Ia | Ib | II | III | IV | V | VI | ||||
| Temperate and Boreal | ||||||||||
| 1 Evergreen needleleaf forest | 280.7 | 0.0 | 6,249.8 | 0.0 | 3,563.3 | 320.9 | 131.0 | 145,232.5 | 10,545.7 | 7.3 |
| 3 Mixed broadleaf/needleleaf forest | 207.1 | 0.0 | 2,177.3 | 0.0 | 577.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 42,715.8 | 2,962.2 | 6.9 |
| 5 Deciduous broadleaf forest | 9.3 | 0.1 | 2,198.5 | 0.0 | 2,119.8 | 3.3 | 197.5 | 73,864.5 | 4,528.4 | 6.1 |
| 6 Freshwater swamp forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,662.8 | 30.5 | 1.8 |
| 7 Sclerophyllous dry forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 64.2 | 0.0 | 862.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 15,740.8 | 926.6 | 5.9 |
| 8 Disturbed natural forest | 7.3 | 0.0 | 1,335.3 | 0.0 | 645.2 | 0.0 | 728.5 | 41,801.0 | 2,716.3 | 6.5 |
| 9 Sparse trees/parkland | 46.9 | 2.4 | 178.0 | 0.0 | 490.7 | 13.1 | 4.0 | 10,882.3 | 735.2 | 6.8 |
| Tropical | ||||||||||
| 14 Lowland evergreen broadleaf rainforest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3,502.4 | 0.0 | 8,119.3 | 0.0 | 645.6 | 73,374.5 | 12,267.2 | 16.7 |
| 15 Lower montane forest | 10.6 | 0.0 | 2,964.1 | 18.7 | 5,310.5 | 7.5 | 2,811.0 | 94,527.8 | 11,122.4 | 11.8 |
| 16 Upper montane forest | 1.7 | 0.0 | 94.5 | 0.0 | 214.1 | 0.0 | 85.2 | 7,234.5 | 395.6 | 5.5 |
| 17 Freshwater swamp forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 35.2 | 0.0 | 73.3 | 0.0 | 1,644.2 | 5,427.5 | 1,752.7 | 32.3 |
| 18 Semi-evergreen moist broadleaf forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 16,699.7 | 50.4 | 16,870.8 | 2,602.7 | 5,977.1 | 216,659.8 | 42,200.6 | 19.5 |
| 20 Needleleaf forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 631.1 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 4,613.3 | 635.9 | 13.8 |
| 21 Mangrove | 862.5 | 0.0 | 508.3 | 69.3 | 3,075.0 | 0.0 | 158.4 | 28,559.8 | 4,673.6 | 16.4 |
| 22 Disturbed natural forest | 0.7 | 0.0 | 220.1 | 0.0 | 555.8 | 0.0 | 9,210.4 | 236,608.0 | 9,987.0 | 4.2 |
| 23 Deciduous/semi-deciduous broadleaf forest | 146.2 | 0.0 | 24,313.4 | 85.9 | 41,945.3 | 4,232.7 | 2,206.2 | 635,541.0 | 72,929.6 | 11.5 |
| 24 Sclerophyllous dry forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24.1 | 0.0 | 70.3 | 1,563.0 | 94.3 | 6.0 |
| 25 Thorn forest | 0.0 | 0.0 | 217.3 | 0.0 | 1,243.7 | 47.3 | 0.0 | 37,158.3 | 1,508.2 | 4.1 |
| 26 Sparse trees/parkland | 102.2 | 0.0 | 635.2 | 0.0 | 193.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 5,030.3 | 930.9 | 18.5 |
| 27 Exotic species plantations | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 217.2 | 1,966.5 | 225.9 | 11.5 |
| 28 Native species plantations | 0.0 | 0.0 | 16.5 | 0.0 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 397.5 | 22.3 | 5.6 |
| Total | 1,675.4 | 2.6 | 61,410.1 | 224.2 | 86,559.3 | 7,227.4 | 24,092.2 | 1,680,561.0 | 181,191.1 | 10.8 |
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