Forests Worldwide


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Where are Forest Declining and Gaining Worldwide?

Source: Worldbank / World Development Indicators

The Taiga or Boreal Forest 

World's Largest Land Biome

Is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. Taiga covers 17 million square kilometres (6.6 million square miles) or 11.5% of the Earth's land area, second only to deserts and xeric shrublands. The largest areas are located in Russia and Canada.

White spruce taiga in the Alaska

Taiga or Boreal Forest Land Coverage

Siberian Taiga

North America Forests 

South America Forests

European Forests

East Asia and Pacific

South Asia

Largest Forests in the World

Amazon Rainforest

5,500,000 km2 (2,100,000 sq mi)

Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela

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Congo Rainforest

2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon

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Atlantic Forest

1,315,460 km2 (507,900 sq mi)

Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay

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Valdivian Temperate Rainforest

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Tongass National Forest

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Rainforest of Xishuangbanna

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Sunderbans

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Daintree Rainforest

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Kinabalu Park

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Middle East and North Africa

East Asia and Pacific

Sub-Saharan Africa