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List of largest forests
[edit]Forests larger than 100 sq mi (260 km2).
Largest forests in the Earth
| Name
|
Forest type
|
Area
|
Countries
|
| Amazon rainforest
|
Rainforest
|
5,500,000 km2 (2,100,000 sq mi)
|
Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
|
| East Siberian taiga
|
Taiga
|
3,900,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi)
|
Russia
|
| Congo Rainforest
|
Rainforest
|
2,000,000 km2 (770,000 sq mi)
|
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
|
| Cerrado
|
Savanna
|
1,910,037 km2 (737,469 sq mi)
|
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
|
| Atlantic Forest
|
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands, mangrove
|
1,315,460 km2 (507,900 sq mi)
|
Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay
|
| Gran Chaco
|
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
|
786,791 km2 (303,782 sq mi)
|
Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil
|
| Central Canadian Shield forests
|
Taiga
|
461,795 km2 (178,300 sq mi)
|
Canada
|
| Valdivian Temperate Rainforest
|
Rainforest
|
248,100 km2 (95,800 sq mi)
|
Chile, Argentina
|
| Tongass National Forest
|
Temperate rainforest
|
68,000 km2 (26,000 sq mi)
|
United States
|
| Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
|
Taiga
|
46,596 km2 (17,991 sq mi)
|
United States
|
| Rainforest of Xishuangbanna
|
Rainforest
|
19,223 km2 (7,422 sq mi)
|
China
|
| Sunderbans
|
Mangrove
|
10,000 km2 (3,900 sq mi)
|
India, Bangladesh
|
| Daintree Rainforest
|
Rainforest
|
1,200 km2 (460 sq mi)
|
Australia
|
| Kinabalu Park
|
|
754 km2 (291 sq mi)
|
Malaysia
|
| Braulio Carrillo National Park
|
Cloud forest, tropical rainforest
|
476 km2 (184 sq mi)
|
Costa Rica
|
| Corcovado National Park
|
Tropical forest
|
424 km2 (164 sq mi)
|
Costa Rica
|
| Guanacaste National Park (Costa Rica)
|
|
340 km2 (130 sq mi)
|
Costa Rica
|
| Tortuguero National Park
|
Rainforest, mangrove
|
312 km2 (120 sq mi)
|
Costa Rica
|
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