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"World's largest rainforests"

There are two types of rainforests: temperate and tropical.


The world’s largest rainforest is the Amazon Jungle! This massive rainforest covers 1.4 billion acres (5,500,000 square kilometers). At the heart of Amazonia is the Amazon River, the largest river in the world.


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Source: Storyteller.Travel


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rjsampson_consulting SanDiegoLotus

ONCE AGAIN: The "OpenAxis" data does NOT correlate with ANY known, scientific surveys. For example, the Eastern Australia Temperate Forest.. by MANY sources is ~85,753 mi².


I'm starting to not enjoy Factle anymore. I have no idea why "OpenAxis" is constantly used as your sources. Could you not use others??

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sam Sam Shull

@rjsampson_consulting I am pretty sure that 85,753 mi² is approximately equivalent to 222,100km²

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erudashi RJ1

Ignoring the math, every other source still does not list the Valvidian Rainforest and the Eastern Australia Temperate Forest as numbers 4 and 5 in the largest rainforests on earth.

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sam Sam Shull

@erudashi Maybe, but there are lists like this one in USA today where items , , and are each smaller than , even by their own account.