The table shows forested land in millions of hectares in different parts of the world. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given table indicates the forested areas in 6 different parts of the planet. Units are measured in millions of hectares. At

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first glance,

it is clear that

Europe

has the widest forest area throughout the

period

with Oceania

on the contrary

.

Europe

, South

America

and Africa

,

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are the top three

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with enormous forestland throughout the

period

.

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the beginning,

Europe

and South

America

started at much the same, 989 and 946, respectively.

However

,

while

Europe

experienced an upward tendency and reached the final number of 1001, South

America

demonstrated

otherwise

.

Moreover

, Africa began at just below 750 before significantly

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by 40 and ended with 691 in the final year.

On the other hand

, North

America

, Asia and Oceania, have a noticeable discrepancy with the previous continents. North

America

had 708 million hectares of land covered with forest in 1990. From

this

point onwards, it slightly dropped by 3

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and levelled out until the end of the

period

.

Furthermore

, Asia started at 576,

subsequently

, it moderately decreased before rising to 584 in 2005.

In addition

, Oceania saw a consistent downtrend by a million each

period

.