Regions

Total area

Saline soils

%

Sodic soils

percent

Africa

1899.1

38.7

2.0

33.5

1.8

Asia and the Pacific and Australia

3107.2

195.1

6.3

248.6

8.0

Europe

2010.8

6.7

0.3

72.7

3.6

Latin America

2038.6

60.5

3.0

50.9

2.5

Near East

1801.9

91.5

5.1

14.1

0.8

North America

1923.7

4.6

0.2

14.5

0.8

Total

12781.3

397.1

3.1%

434.3

3.4%