FAO Forestry country profiles - natural woody vegetation

Forest cover map

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Map source: Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000, base map: ESRI

The above map is an extract from the Global Forest Cover map produced as part of FRA 2000. Please refer to FRA Working Paper 19 for a background to the production of the map.

The character of the vegetation in the Sudan depends largely on rainfall and soil type. The following classification is principally based on Harrison and Jackson (1958). There are no clear-cut boundaries between the various types. Since the vegetation of the desert, which lies almost entirely in the Northern province with some small areas in Darfur, Kordofan and Kassala provinces, is limited to some xerophytic shrubs (Acacia ehrenberiana, Capparis decidua and Fagonia cretica) along the water courses, this ecological type has been omitted from the description.