Table 1.1. Area (1000 ha) of land cover by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Vegetated Non-vegetated Other1 Total2
Treed Non-treed Total Land Water Total
Taiga Plains 36 559.60 17 049.18 53 608.78 3 130.51 9 028.77 12 159.29 - 65 768.07
Taiga Shield 48 602.86 51 507.14 100 110.00 9 856.20 29 356.61 39 212.81 - 139 322.81
Boreal Shield 129 858.35 32 049.68 161 908.03 2 041.13 28 158.12 30 199.25 - 192 107.28
Atlantic Maritime 16 117.16 2 827.54 18 944.70 696.92 515.46 1 212.39 - 20 157.09
Mixedwood Plains 3 349.45 6 037.26 9 386.70 1 630.55 5 836.87 7 467.42 - 16 854.12
Boreal Plains 48 608.43 15 520.12 64 128.56 2 974.69 6 968.81 9 943.50 - 74 072.06
Prairies 2 948.91 32 986.13 35 935.04 8 662.08 2 062.08 10 724.17 - 46 659.21
Taiga Cordillera 6 586.73 12 460.43 19 047.17 7 387.77 270.21 7 657.99 - 26 705.15
Boreal Cordillera 20 661.11 13 888.47 34 549.57 11 395.57 1 135.72 12 531.29 - 47 080.86
Pacific Maritime 11 639.23 2 075.59 13 714.81 6 607.38 553.84 7 161.22 - 20 876.03
Montane Cordillera 33 391.41 7 335.03 40 726.44 6 753.82 1 498.15 8 251.97 - 48 978.41
Hudson Plains 18 887.01 15 430.79 34 317.80 242.43 2 637.33 2 879.76 - 37 197.57
Canada 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 areas of the ecozones are based on the Atlas of Canada 1:1 000 000 scale base map reprojected to Albers Equal Area Conic projection (ESRI: 102001).