Amazon rainforest

Also known as Amazonas, Amazonian rainforest, Amazon rain forest, Amazonian rain forest, Amazon forest, Amazonia, Brazilian Amazon, Amazons

large rainforest in South America

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The Amazon rainforest is a large rainforest located in South America that spans across multiple countries and contains an enormous diversity of plant and animal life. It matters because it plays a crucial role in regulating the global climate and produces much of the world's oxygen, while also being home to indigenous peoples and countless species found nowhere else on Earth.

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Population: 34000000
Area: 6900000
Image: Amazon Manaus forest.jpg

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The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7 million km (2.7 million sq mi), of which 6 million km (2.3 million sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 indigenous territories.

The majority of the forest, 60%, is in Brazil, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Four nations have "Amazonas" as the name of one of their first-level administrative regions, and France uses the name "Guiana Amazonian Park" for French Guiana's protected rainforest area. The Amazon represents over half of the total area of remaining rainforests on Earth, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees in about 16,000 species.