As of 2018, where would you find what is claimed to be the world's largest man made forest?

In 2018 China confirmed that it had successfully planted and nurtured a man-made forest as large as France. What makes this is even more interesting is that China was able to achieve this in one of the most isolated places on Earth - the Qinghai Tibet Plateau.

For hundreds of years, scientists believe that the Qinghai Tibet Plateau was a barren and desolate desert. The area was constantly bombarded by severe sand stores caused by outflows of dust from the nearby desert. Reports even claim that towns as far as 70 kilometres away were affected by such storms.

Now, the Qinghai Tibet Plateau is an area of a forest that covers around 30,000 hectares. This was in part due to China's aggressive forestation program, and a spokesperson for the Ministry of Forestry said that the country was now reaping the efforts which began way back in 1949.

The Qinghai Tibet Plateau now stands not only as the world's largest man-made forest but also the world's biggest forestation accomplishment. The project helped increase China's forest coverage from 10.6 percent in 10.6 percent in 1949 to 15 percent recently. In total, this represents about 25 percent of the world's total afforested area.