Where is the Amazon rainforest?

The Amazon rainforest covers approximately 5.5 million square kilometers across nine countries: Brazil (~60%), Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. It is the world's largest tropical rainforest — larger than the entire European Union. The Amazon contains an estimated 390 billion individual trees belonging to 16,000 species, and is home to 10% of all known species on Earth, including 2.5 million insect species, 2,200 fish species, and 1,300 bird species. The Amazon River, which flows through it, discharges more water than the next seven largest rivers combined — about 209,000 cubic meters per second. The forest acts as a critical carbon sink, absorbing about 2 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually.