More than 80 per cent of the area is gently rolling to hilly.

The actual hardware, the turbine blades, covers only 2.3 per cent of the area exposed to the wind.

About five per cent of the area is covered by access roads and foundation sites, leaving the rest available for crops or cattle grazing.

It succeeded at a stroke in reducing tenanted land from over 45 per cent of the cultivated area to under 10 per cent.

Nearly 81 per cent of the area of Sikkim comes under the administration of its forest department.

The 10 per cent of the area consists of grasslands.

To achieve that, according to the rules, at least 75 per cent of the area must be set aside as a natural biodiversity zone (core zone).

Currently 41 per cent of the area of the park is designated as a natural biodiversity zone.

Forty-two per cent of the entire area of the European Union is covered in forests and woodland.

Rice, the major crop of the state, is cultivated in 91 per cent of the cropped area.