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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."~ Tipsy Toes on Answers.com

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