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Amazon rainforest

Large rainforest in South America

Also known as Amazonas · Amazonian rainforest · Amazon rain forest · Amazonian rain forest · Amazon forest · Amazonia

Country: Peru
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1.wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/amazon/
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, Ecuador
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, Colombia
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Population: 34M
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1.wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?270090/WWF-Living-Amazon-Report-2016
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Area: 6,900,000 km²
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1.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-11/RISKING%20THE%20AMAZON_final.pdf
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Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle, Amazonia, or simply the Amazon, 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 km2 (2.7 million sq mi), of which 6 million km2 (2.3 million sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 indigenous territories.

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Continent: Americas
Part of: South America
Different from: Panamazonia
Location: Amazonia

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31 identifiers linking Amazon rainforest across the web's reference databases

-3.1600, -60.0300OpenStreetMap ↗

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