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Trees & air quality in Pakistan
How much tree cover Pakistan'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
- 4.7%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- FaisalabadAQI 172
5 cities in Pakistan
Lahore
2 km around Block N Gulberg III
Tree cover
50%
None
trees needed
Healthy tree cover
Karachi
2 km around Napier Quarter
Tree cover
1%
91.7K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Islamabad
2 km around F-8/3 F 8/3 F-8
Tree cover
61%
None
trees needed
Healthy tree cover
Peshawar
2 km around YAKKATOOT
Tree cover
12%
72.7K
trees needed
to reach 35%
Faisalabad
2 km around Faisalabad
Tree cover
15%
78.4K
trees needed
to reach 40%
Pakistan as a whole
4.7% of Pakistan was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 19.5B trees across 19.5M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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