12 largest rainforests in the world and where to find them
2019年2月16日 · The world’s largest jungle, the Amazon scarcely needs an introduction. It is the world’s largest rainforest and spans nine countries in total, covering 40% of South America. The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests and is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species.
The World’s Top 10 Biggest Rainforests - Earth.Org
2024年6月22日 · The World’s Top 10 Biggest Rainforests 1. The Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon is the world’s largest and best known tropical rainforest. As measured by primary forest extent, the Amazon rainforest is more than three times larger than that of the Congo Basin, the world’s second largest rainforest. The Amazon rainforest accounts for just over ...
Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called 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 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. [3]
Top 10 largest rainforests in the world 2024 - BBC Science Focus …
Rainforests are often referred to as the 'Lungs of the world'. Check out our gallery of the biggest and most important ecosystems on Earth.
20 Biggest and Most Popular Rainforests in the World That Might ...
Some of the biggest popular rainforests include: 1. Amazon Rainforest (South America) It is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, also known as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, boasting 5,500,000 km² of area.
What is the largest jungle in the world? - Geographic Pedia
2024年6月23日 · One of the most fascinating and awe-inspiring natural wonders in the world is the largest jungle on Earth – the Amazon rainforest. Spread over an area of more than 3.8 million square kilometers, the Amazon is not only the largest …
What are the largest rainforests in the world? | Live Science
2022年1月1日 · The Amazon rainforest in South America is, by far, the largest rainforest in the world. It covers about 80% of the Amazon basin, which spans at least 2.3 million square miles (6 million...
The 10 largest rainforests in the world - Earth.com
2018年1月3日 · Covering an area of over 1.2 billion acres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world. This region is home to 10 percent of the world’s known species and represents over half of the rainforest on the planet.
The Amazon Rainforest: The World's Largest Rainforest
The Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined. As of 2020, the Amazon has 526 million hectares of primary forest, which accounts for nearly 84% of the region's 629 million hectares of …
5 Countries With the Largest Rainforest Coverage - WorldAtlas
2017年7月14日 · Brazil has the largest rainforest cover in the world, thanks to the Amazon Rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest is the biggest and most biodiverse rainforest in the world covering an area of 1,800,000 square miles. Brazil is estimated to have approximately 400 billion trees of 16,000 different species.