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| The Amazon Rain Forest is large in size, and is very important to us. It holds one third of the world's oxygen, and all of this oxygen is produced by vegetation. It covers about 5.5 million square miles. It is located mostly in the northern section of South America, and is a little in the central area. It is in nine countries, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, and a small amount of area in Suriname and French Guiana. That is 25% of South America. Sixty-two per cent of it is in Brazil, and 38% of it is in the other countries. In Brazil they call it the Legal Amazon. It is the largest tropical jungle in the world. It could be the sixth largest country in the world if it was a country. It is about the size of half of the European continent. It is larger than all of Western Europe. It covers a little less than half of Brazil, and it is in most of the northern part of Brazil. Its population was 17,193,446 in 1990, which is less than the population of New York City. |
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| By Brian |
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