Canadian land cover in 2000

This statistic shows the land cover of Canada in 2000 by category. That year, the grassland area in Canada amounted to 49 thousand square kilometers.

Land cover in Canada in 2000 (in square kilometers)

Characteristic	Land cover in square kilometers
Evergreen needleleaf forest area	2,655,892
Low vegetation and barren area	2,596,909
Mixed forest area	1,142,428
Shrubland area	1,005,820
Other land cover area*	909,885
Snow and ice area	676,083
Cropland and cropland with woodland area	670,608
Disturbance area*	234,065
Grassland area	49,683
Deciduous broadleaf forest area	34,809

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December 2005

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

2000

Supplementary notes

* Other land cover area consists of water, urban and built-up areas.

Disturbance area refers to forest disturbance, which can be caused by changes in forest structure or composition resulting from natural events such as fire, flood or wind, from mortality caused by insect or disease outbreaks, or from human-caused events such as forest harvesting. Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2000. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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