The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin of South America. The basin spans about 7 million square kilometers, of which roughly 6 million square kilometers are covered by rainforest, and the region includes territory belonging to nine nations along with 3,344 indigenous territories.
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The Amazon Rainforest occupies most of the Amazon Basin, the atlas own river-basin landform entity.
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