Top 7 Facts About the Amazon Rainforest - Page 2 of 9

The largest tropical rainforest in the world

The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. It covers an area of 2.1 million square miles (5.5 millions square kilometers). This dwarfs the world’s second largest rainforest, the Congo in central Africa. It only covers 690,000 square miles (1.78 million square kilometers). To help give you an idea of how big the Amazon really is, if it was its own country it would be the world’s 7th largest country based on area. It would be smaller than only Russia, Canada, the United States, China, Brazil, and Australia. However, it would be bigger than famously large nations such as India and Mexico.