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Trees & air quality in Turkey
How much tree cover Turkey'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
- 29.5%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- BursaAQI 61
5 cities in Turkey
Ankara
2 km around Ankara
Tree cover
21%
28.1K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Istanbul
2 km radius
Bursa
2 km around Bursa
Tree cover
14%
50.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
İzmir
2 km around İzmir
Tree cover
10%
57.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Gaziantep
2 km around Gaziantep
Tree cover
5%
80.1K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Turkey as a whole
29.5% of Turkey was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 400.5M trees across 401K hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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