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

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Europe

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has the widest forest area throughout the

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with Oceania

on the contrary

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.

Europe

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, South

America

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and Africa

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are the top three

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with enormous forestland throughout the

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the beginning,

Europe

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and South

America

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

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while

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Europe

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

America

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demonstrated

otherwise

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, 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

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, North

America

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

America

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

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point onwards, it slightly dropped by 3

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and levelled out until the end of the

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Furthermore

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, Asia started at 576,

subsequently

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, it moderately decreased before rising to 584 in 2005.

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, Oceania saw a consistent downtrend by a million each

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