Amazon rainforest
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The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica, Amazonía or usually Amazonia; French: Forêt amazonienne; Dutch: Amazoneregenwoud), also known in English as Amazonia or theAmazon Jungle,
is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin
encompasses 7,000,000 square kilometres (2,700,000 sq mi), of which
5,500,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the
rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The
majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of
the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor
amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four
nations contain "Amazonas"
in their names. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most
biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an
estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species.
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