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Trees & air quality in Egypt
How much tree cover Egypt's major cities have, what their air quality is right now, and how many more trees each one needs. Every report covers the same 2 km area, so the cities compare like for like.
- Cities tracked
- 5
- National forest cover
- 0.0%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- 'AbdinAQI 60
5 cities in Egypt
Cairo
2 km around 'Abdin
Tree cover
1%
92.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Alexandria
2 km around Kom Ad Dikah
Tree cover
5%
61.2K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Port Said
2 km around Al Arab
Tree cover
1%
57.6K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Suez
2 km around Al Arbaeen
Tree cover
1%
92.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Al Mansurah
2 km around West Al Mansoura
Tree cover
2%
85.9K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Egypt as a whole
0.0% of Egypt was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 29.8B trees across 29.8M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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