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Figure 12: Top Five States by Very Dense Forest, 2021
25000
21,058
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Forest Cover (sq. km) 15000 8,734 7,213 7,068 6,665

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Arunachal Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Chhattisgarh Madhya Pradesh
Source: India State of Forest Report 2021
6.18 Figure 13 shows the top five states in terms of moderately dense forest in 2021. Madhya
Pradesh and Chhattisgarh accounted for 11 per cent of India’s moderately dense forest in 2021,
followed by Arunachal Pradesh (10 per cent), Odisha (7 per cent) and Karnataka (7 per cent).

Figure 13: Top Five States by Moderately Dense Forest, 2021

40000
34,209
35000 32,279
30,176
30000
Forest Cover (sq. km) 20000 20,995 20,985
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Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh Arunachal Pradesh Odisha Karnataka
Source: India State of Forest Report 2021

6.19 Figure 14 shows the top five states in terms of open forest in 2021. Madhya Pradesh
accounted for 12 per cent of India’s moderately dense forest in 2021, followed by Odisha (8 per
cent), Maharashtra (7 per cent), Chhattisgarh (5 per cent) and Assam (5 per cent).

Figure 14: Top Five States by Open Forest Cover, 2021

40000 36,619
35000 23,948
30000
Forest Cover (sq. km) 25000 21,475 16,370 15,304

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Madhya Pradesh Odisha Maharashtra Chhattisgarh Assam
Source: India State of Forest Report 2021