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Originally Posted by Crawford
That's not an unusually high share.
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That's in the City of Paris proper, which is very small in terms of land area compared to other European cities which have annexed their suburbs.
In the Greater Paris Metropolis (814 km²/314 sq. miles), which is more comparable to other European cities, 39% of the land area is parks, woods, and forests. That's among the highest in Europe.
This map shows the ratio of green space per census tract in the Greater Paris Metropolis. The greener, the higher the % of land area is occupied by green space. The darkest green areas are actually woods and forests.
Then you have tourists who stay only in the redish areas in the center and who conclude that Paris has very little green space.
And the largest royal forests (like Marly, St Germain en Laye, Notre Dame, and of course Fontainebleau) are beyond the borders of the Greater Paris Metropolis. They are the ones which make Paris really unique.
For example I go hiking in the forest of Marly from times to times, it's 45 minutes by public transportation from my place inside the city of Paris proper (would be only 30 minutes driving). In the SF Bay Area it takes also half an hour of driving to reach the green areas in the hills, and no one would say that the Bay Area has very little nature. In fact it's one of its assets, the easy access to nature and green areas.
It's the same in Paris, lots of forests around the city to choose from. In Europe, only Berlin and Stockholm have as many forests around as Paris.
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