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For comparison: Finland (338,440 km²) is three times the size of Iceland (103,000 km²) Finland has 23 million hectares (76%) of forest cover. http://www.metla
by pasiaj 4y ago
For comparison: Finland (338,440 km²) is three times the size of Iceland (103,000 km²)
Finland has 23 million hectares (76%) of forest cover.
http://www.metla.fi/metinfo/sustainability/finnish.htm http://www.metla.fi/metinfo/sustainability/finnish.htm
- BurningFrog 4y agoA hectare is 0.01 km², so Finland has 230,000 km² of forest.
- lucb1e 4y agoFrankly I find both of these really hard to wrap my head around. Not like football fields or olympic swimming pools are better, but the country of Finland being ¾ covered gives me a much better sense of scale than x million hectolometers. Probably that only works for people that are from nearby Finland and/or into geography, though. For huge scales like these, I'm thinking degrees might theoretically be a better unit, since it's easier to visualize a fraction of the globe (presuming people know there's 360 degrees around the globe) than picturing hundreds of thousands of some other unit.