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Top 5 largest forests / forested regions

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Forested area

Snapshot · 2026-08-09

  1. 1

    Taiga / Boreal forest (circumpolar)

    ~17,000,000 km2

  2. 2

    Amazon Rainforest

    ~5,500,000 km2

  3. 3

    Congo Basin Rainforest

    ~2,000,000 km2

  4. 4

    New Guinea / Australasian rainforest

    ~several hundred thousand km2

  5. 5

    Valdivian temperate rainforest

    ~248,100 km2