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What is approximately the percentage of forest cover in India?
Options:
A .  25%
B .  19.5%
C .  23.02%
D .  10%
Answer: Option C
Answer: (c)
The Forest area (% of land area) in India was last reported at 23.02 per cent in 2010, according to a World Bank report published in 2012.
Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens.

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