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The area, also known as Amazonia or the Amazon Basin encompasses seven million kilometers (1.2 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million kilometers, located within eight nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
Amazon Rainforest is also known as the Amazon Basin. Amazon constitutes half of the total rainforest of the earth. It occupies the northern part of the South America. It constitutes eight nations, some of which includes Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and other neighbouring nations. It has a total area which extends more than 1.6 million sq miles.
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What are the topology in Amazon Rainforest?
topology is how big the rainforest is.
A land description of the amazon rainforest?
is that it is big
How has the population of the Amazon Rainforest decreased?
I'm not sure but apparently every month a chunk of the amazon as big as Wales is cut down by local people!
What is the nearest country to the Amazon rainforest?
The amazon rainforest is so big that it covers many countries like:VenezuelaColombiaEcuadorPeruBoliviaBrazilThese countries are all in South America
How big ig the Amazon rainforest?
1.4 billion acers
How big is amazon forest?
The Amazon Rainforest is roughly 5,500,000 km² or 2,123,562 sq mi.
How big is amazon rainforest before and after deforestation?
Well, there is no definite answer to your question because the rainforest is being destroyed everyday. but currently, around %18 of the Amazon had been destroyed.
How big is 2 million square miles?
that would be over twice the size of greenland
How big is Wales compared to Oregon?
Oregon has 98,381 square mile in area; Wales has 8,023 square miles. Wales is about the same area as New Jersey.
Why is Brazil's forest known as the lungs of earth?
Because most of the Amazon Rainforest is within its borders, and the Amazon Rainforest prduces most of the oxygen we use to breathe.
How big is the biggest rainforest?
I am not sure if there is a name for it but it is a connected temperature rainforest which stretches from practically the San Francisco Bay almost to the Aleutian Islands, it is the largest in the US and Canada.
How big is Italy compared to wales?
Wales is 20,758 sq.kms whilst Italy is 301,230 square km. Therefore Italy is 280,472 square km larger
