SOILS AND NATURAL VEGETATION
NATURAL VEGETATION INDIA
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Question
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Mizoram
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Arunachal Pradesh
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Sikkim
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Jammu and Kashmir
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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The answer is Madhya Pradesh. Area-wise Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover in the country followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mizoram has the largest forest area to its total land area. Mizoram has 90.38% of forest cover to geographical area and this is the highest in the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mizoram, with 88.93 percentage of forest cover has the highest forest cover in percentage terms.
Detailed explanation-4: -In terms of forest cover as percentage of total geographical area, the top five States are Mizoram (84.53%), Arunachal Pradesh (79.33%), Meghalaya (76.00%), Manipur (74.34%) and Nagaland (73.90%). 17 states/UT’s have above 33 percent of the geographical area under forest cover.
Detailed explanation-5: -Russia has the largest forest area in the world. About 815 million hectares of land in Russia is covered by forest. Brazil, the United States, Canada, China, Australia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo also have a large forest area.