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Sambisa Forest

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

0% of the land around it is trees.

20Forestyas Score

ForestWild

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • Altitude337 m

The forest around

0% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Shrubland 37%Grassland 63%Trees 0%Shrubland 42%Grassland 58%Trees 0%Shrubland 45%Grassland 54%Cropland 0%Trees 2%Shrubland 44%Grassland 54%Cropland 0%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km2%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees0%
  • Shrubland42%
  • Grassland58%
  • Cropland0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

20out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 337 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to May.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan33°14°0 mm
  2. Feb37°18°0 mm
  3. Mar40°22°0 mm
  4. Apr41°25°9 mm
  5. May40°26°36 mm
  6. Jun37°25°82 mm
  7. Jul33°23°156 mm
  8. Aug30°22°200 mm
  9. Sep32°22°116 mm
  10. Oct35°21°27 mm
  11. Nov35°17°0 mm
  12. Dec33°14°0 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sambisa Forest.

Forest in Borno State, Nigeria

Sambisa Forest is a forest in Nigeria, 337 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is from January to May.

Sambisa Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Sambisa Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q15059687) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
    Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
    What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
    ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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