The Amazon Rainforest is located in South America and spans across nine countries: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (an overseas territory of France). About 60% of the rainforest lies within Brazil, making it the largest portion, followed by Peru and Colombia with smaller shares. The forest covers approximately 6.7 million square kilometers (2.7 million square miles) and stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Andes Mountains in the west
. It is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, containing an immense biodiversity and vital ecological resources such as one-third of the world's species and a significant portion of the planet's freshwater
