Claim: A 2010 study by the Food and Agriculture Organisation ranks India amongst the ten countries with the largest forest area coverage in the world, with about 17% of its land area regarded as Forest Area in the early 1990s.
Evidence: A 2010 study by the Food and Agriculture Organisation ranks India amongst the 10 countries with the largest forest area coverage in the world (the other nine being Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Australia, Indonesia and Sudan). Some 500,000 square kilometres, about 17% of India's land area, were regarded as Forest Area in the early 1990s.