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Pakistan Pakistan arboretum

Bagh-e-Jinnah

Amnagondal · CC BY-SA 4.0

17% trees around it and 54 species recorded.

28Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km17%
  • wild within 10 km19%
  • species recorded54
  • Altitude213 m

The forest around

17% 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.

Trees 39%Grassland 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 58%Trees 15%Grassland 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 82%Trees 7%Grassland 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 88%Trees 10%Shrubland 1%Grassland 5%Water 2%Bare ground 5%Cropland 19%Built-up 58%17%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km39%
  • 1–3 km15%
  • 3–6 km7%
  • 6–10 km10%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees15%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up82%

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

Who lives here

54 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Peacock Flower
Peacock FlowerCaesalpinia pulcherrima3 recordsJim Evans · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Poppy
Common PoppyPapaver rhoeas2 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 2.5

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

28out of 100

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

  • 17%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 19%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 54Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 213 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in January.

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

  1. Jan20°5°20 mm
  2. Feb24°8°30 mm
  3. Mar30°14°33 mm
  4. Apr37°20°20 mm
  5. May43°27°17 mm
  6. Jun43°30°71 mm
  7. Jul40°29°162 mm
  8. Aug38°28°133 mm
  9. Sep36°24°77 mm
  10. Oct33°19°9 mm
  11. Nov27°13°8 mm
  12. Dec22°7°10 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bagh-e-Jinnah.

Historical park in the city of Lahore, Pakistan

Bagh-e-Jinnah is an arboretum in Pakistan, 213 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 17% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 19% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

54 species have been recorded around it: 2 plants, 2 fungi, 50 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is in January.

Bagh-e-Jinnah Lahore Pakistan
Amnagondal · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Gcu Guest Houseplace to stay · 3.0 km · 233 within 10 km
  • Lahorenearest town · 1.9 km in a straight line
  • Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 8 km in a straight lineCar hire in LahoreDiscover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Bagh-e-Jinnah 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 km
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmNauchandi Jumerat Tree
  • 5shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 15viewpoints within 5 kmOld Building Erected 1858, Mazang, CITY TOWER and 12 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmFriends Tours & Travels, information Cell and 2 more
  • 67car parks within 3 km
  • 233places to stay within 10 kmGcu Guest House, Khaid bin Waleed Hall, Iqbal Hostel and 230 more
  • 53restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • campsites within 10 km

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

In our other atlases

Around Bagh-e-Jinnah.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Simla Hill1.0 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Astronomical Observatory of the University of the PunjabBortle 9 · 6.0 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

A fountain in Bagh-e-Jinnah
Jugni · CC BY-SA 3.0
A May morning in Bagh e Jinnah, Lahore
AminaOKhawaja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Amazing plant-1 Bagh-e-Jinnah
Jugni · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Bagh-e-Jinnah

Pakistan

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 17%Trees
  • 19%Wild
  • 54Species

Himalayan subtropical pine forests

Bhutan · 274 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 277Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3694552) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species771 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
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
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Darkskyas

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

The family

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