Table 21.0. Area (1000 ha) of land by land use in Canada.
Land Use Total
Industrial Forestry Agriculture Conservation Infrastructure Settlement Recreation National Defence Unknown Other1
3 484.33 265 354.16 60 201.38 93 920.50 4 051.56 4 609.75 42 047.87 2 276.87 171 711.91 0.00 647 658.34
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 2, November 2022) (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 uses.