1. Figures and map-data from GIS database 1: 100 000
Land Use in Lao PDR
Figures and map-data from GIS database 1:
Khom Phenthi Heng Sath
National Geographic Department

2. Water Bodies
2514 km2
1.1 %

3. Permanent Agriculture Land
11985 km2
5 %

4. Current Forest
km2
50 %
115531

5. Potential Forest
(And Current Forest)
87455 km2
38 %

6. Permanent Agriculture Land
Potential Forest
Current Forest
Permanent Agriculture Land
Water Bodies

7. Current Forest Upper Dry Evergreen Forest Lower Dry Evergreen Forest
Upper Mixed Deciduous Forest
Lower Mixed Deciduous Forest
Dry Dipterocarp Forest
Gallery Forest
Coniferous Forest
Mixed Broadleaved & Coniferous Forest
Forest Plantation

8. Upper Dry Evergreen Forest
NGD-type 11
12469 km2
5.4 %

9. Lower Dry Evergreen
Forest
NGD-type 12
21.3 km2
0.01 %

10. Upper Mixed Deciduous Forest
NGD-type 13
86401 km2
37.4 %

11. Lower Mixed Deciduous
Forest
NGD-type 14
10.5 km2
0.005 %

12. Dry Dipterocarp Forest
NGD-type 15
km2
6.1 %

13. Gallery Forest
NGD-type 16
76.2 km2
0.03 %

14. Coniferous Forest
NGD-type 17
km2
0.6 %

15. Mixed Broadleaved Coniferous Forrest
NGD-type 18
km2
0.5 %

16. Forest Plantation
NGD-type 19
22.8 km2
0.01 %

17. Potential Forest Bamboo Forest Unstocked Forest Natural Regeneration
Ray

18. Bamboo Forest
NGD-type 21
8695 km2
3.8 %

19. Unstocked Forest
NGD-type 22
73096 km2
31.7 %

20. Natural Regeneration
NGD-type 23
7.5 km2
0.003 %

21. Ray
NGD-type 24
5656 km2
2.5 %

22. Other Wooded Area
Savannah / Open woodlands
Scrub forest, Heath

23. Savannah, Open Woodlans
NGD-type 31
1390 km2
0.6 %

24. Scrub forest, Heath
NGD-type 32
2105 km2
0.9 %

25. Permanent Agriculture Land
Rice Paddy
Agricultural Plantation
Other Agricultural Land

26. Rice Paddy
NGD-type 41
10820 km2
4.7 %

27. Agricultural Plantation
NGD-type 42
846 km2
0.4 %

28. Other Agricultural Land
NGD-type 43
318.7 km2
0.14 %

29. Other Non_forest Land Barren Land and Rock Grass Land Swamp
Urban or Built_Up Area

30. Barren Land and Rock
NGD-type 51
2176 km2
1 %

31. Grass Land
NGD-type 52
6859 km2
3 %

32. Swamp
NGD-type 53
579 km2
0.25 %

33. Urban or Built_Up Area
NGD-type 54
129 km2
0.06 %