Botswana vs Congo: Area burned by wildfires by land cover type
Botswana
2.16 million hectares
in 2024
Congo
2.33 million hectares
in 2024
Botswana rank
20th
Congo rank
18th
Area burned by wildfires by land cover type over time
- Botswana
- Congo
How they compare
Congo currently reports 2.33 million hectares against 2.16 million hectares in Botswana, a difference of 163,910 hectares.
That makes Congo's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 23 shared years of data; in 2002 it was Botswana ahead.
Botswana ranks 20th and Congo ranks 18th of 225 countries.
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About this data
Area of shrubland and grassland burnt by wildfires each year, in hectares. Includes open and closed shrublands and grasslands without a significant tree cover.