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Trees & air quality in Kazakhstan
How much tree cover Kazakhstan'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
- 1.3%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- Al-Farabi DistrictAQI 52
5 cities in Kazakhstan
Astana
2 km around Baikonur District
Tree cover
19%
33.7K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Almaty
2 km radius
Shymkent
2 km around Al-Farabi District
Tree cover
19%
36.2K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Aktobe
2 km around Aktobe
Tree cover
28%
5.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Karagandy
2 km around Novy Gorod
Tree cover
26%
12.3K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Kazakhstan as a whole
1.3% of Kazakhstan was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 77.4B trees across 77.4M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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