Largest Forests

The world's largest forests, spanning vast areas of our planet, are critical to maintaining global biodiversity, regulating climate, and serving as massive…

• Taiga / Boreal Forest — 17,000,000 (Circumpolar (Russia, Canada, Scandinavia))
• Amazon Rainforest — 5,500,000 (South America)
• Congo Rainforest — 3,700,000 (Central Africa)
• Australasian Rainforest — 1,390,000 (New Guinea and Australia)
• Sundaland Rainforest — 510,000 (Southeast Asia)
• Valdivian Temperate Rainforest — 248,100 (South America (Chile/Argentina))
• Indo-Burma Rainforest — 139,000 (Southeast Asia)
• Wallacea Rainforest — 100,000 (Indonesia)
• Atlantic Forest — 100,000 (South America (Brazil coast))
• Guinean Forests of West Africa — 93,000 (West Africa)

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