Table 1.0. Area (1000 ha) of land cover in Canada.
Vegetated Non-vegetated Other1 Total2
Treed Non-treed Total Land Water Total
377 210.24 209 167.35 586 377.60 61 379.08 88 021.98 149 401.05 - 735 778.65
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 3.1, October 2025) (http://nfi.nfis.org)
Note: The Arctic ecozones (Arctic Cordillera, Northern Arctic, Southern Arctic), and the Taiga Plains and Hudson Plains ecozones located in Nunavut, are not inventoried. These non-inventoried areas total 262,189.89 thousand ha.
1 Missing, unknown or other land covers.
2 The area is based on the Atlas of Canada 1:1 000 000 scale base map reprojected to Albers Equal Area Conic projection (ESRI: 102001).