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Rainforests are found on all the continents except Antarctica. There are two types of rainforests tropical and temperate.

Tropical rainforests are rainforests in the tropics, found near the Equator (between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and present in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and northeastern Australia, Sub-Saharan Africa from Cameroon to the Congo, South America, Central America and on many of the Pacific Islands.

Temperate rainforests can be found in North America, in Europe, East Asia (in southern China, Taiwan, much of Japan and Korea, in South America, Australia and New Zealand.

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