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The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth, spanning nine countries and covering about 5.5 million square kilometers.

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Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia or Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers, of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations.

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