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Trees & air quality in Syria
How much tree cover Syria'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
- 2.8%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- Al FarafirahAQI 53
5 cities in Syria
Damascus
2 km around Al Hijaz
Tree cover
5%
79.5K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Aleppo
2 km around Al Farafirah
Tree cover
2%
89.5K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Homs
2 km around Job Al Jandaley
Tree cover
1%
89.8K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Latakia
2 km around 7 Nisan
Tree cover
17%
39.7K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Ar Raqqah
2 km around Amin
Tree cover
2%
87.4K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Syria as a whole
2.8% of Syria was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 5.0B trees across 5.0M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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