Countries in Asia by protected land

Countries in Asia by protected land, World Bank, 2025

#	Country	% of land	Region
1	Bhutan	51.6%	Southern Asia
2	Brunei	39.9%	South-Eastern Asia
3	Cambodia	39.8%	South-Eastern Asia
4	Armenia	38.9%	Western Asia
5	Cyprus	38.6%	Western Asia
6	Sri Lanka	30.8%	Southern Asia
7	Japan	29.7%	Eastern Asia
8	Oman	28.9%	Western Asia
9	Israel	27.6%	Western Asia
10	Nepal	23.6%	Southern Asia
11	Georgia	22.8%	Western Asia
12	Tajikistan	22.6%	Central Asia
13	Azerbaijan	22.1%	Western Asia
14	Mongolia	19.8%	Eastern Asia
15	United Arab Emirates	19.2%	Western Asia
16	Pakistan	19.1%	Southern Asia
17	Laos	18.8%	South-Eastern Asia
18	Saudi Arabia	18.5%	Western Asia
19	Thailand	18.4%	South-Eastern Asia
20	South Korea	17.7%	Eastern Asia
21	Kuwait	17.1%	Western Asia
22	Timor-Leste	16.1%	South-Eastern Asia
23	Philippines	16.0%	South-Eastern Asia
=24	China	15.6%	Eastern Asia
=24	Qatar	15.6%	Western Asia
26	Uzbekistan	14.1%	Central Asia
27	Malaysia	13.3%	South-Eastern Asia
28	Lebanon	13.0%	Western Asia
29	Indonesia	12.0%	South-Eastern Asia
30	Bahrain	11.7%	Western Asia
31	Kazakhstan	10.1%	Central Asia
32	Iran	7.8%	Southern Asia
33	India	7.7%	Southern Asia
34	Vietnam	7.6%	South-Eastern Asia
35	Turkey	7.0%	Western Asia
36	Kyrgyzstan	6.8%	Central Asia
37	Myanmar	6.7%	South-Eastern Asia
38	Jordan	5.4%	Western Asia
39	Singapore	4.6%	South-Eastern Asia
40	Turkmenistan	4.3%	Central Asia
41	Bangladesh	4.2%	Southern Asia
42	Afghanistan	3.6%	Southern Asia
43	Maldives	3.0%	Southern Asia
44	North Korea	2.4%	Eastern Asia
45	Iraq	1.5%	Western Asia
46	Yemen	1.1%	Western Asia
47	Syria	0.7%	Western Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	% of land	Status
Hong Kong	42.0%	Territory of China
Palestine	10.0%	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the most protected land?

Bhutan has the most protected land in Asia: 51.6% of the land protected (2025). Next come Brunei (39.9% of the land protected) and Cambodia (39.8% of the land protected).

Which country in Asia has the least protected land?

Syria, with 0.7% of the land protected (2025).

What is the typical protected land of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 15.6% of the land protected: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

The share of the land in national parks, nature reserves and other protected areas. Source: World Bank, 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.