South America

Amazonia

Amazonia is a huge region covering about 40% of the continent. It encompasses most of northern , parts of northern , eastern , eastern , southeastern , southern , southern , southern and southern .
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  • Type: tropical forest with 34,000,000 residents
  • Description: large rainforest in South America
  • Also known as: “Amazon forest”, “Amazon rain forest”, “Amazon rainforest”, “Amazonas”, “Amazonian rain forest”, “Amazonian rainforest”, and “Brazilian Amazon”

Amazonia

Latitude of center
-3.16° or 3° 9′ 36″ south
Longitude of center
-60.03° or 60° 1′ 48″ west
Population
34,000,000
Wiki­data ID
Q177567
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Amazonia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Amasonereënwoud”
  • Afrikaans: “Amasonië”
  • Albanian: “amazone”
  • Albanian: “Pylli i Amazonës”
  • Arabic: “الأمازون”
  • Arabic: “غابات الأمازون”
  • Arabic: “غابة الأمازون”
  • Aragonese: “Selva amazonica”
  • Armenian: “Ամազոնի խոնավ անտառներ”
  • Asturian: “Amazonia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amazon yağış meşələri”
  • Basque: “Amazonia”
  • Basque: “Amazoniako oihana”
  • Belarusian: “дажджавы лес Амазоніі”
  • Belarusian: “Дажджавыя лясы Амазоніі”
  • Bengali: “আমাজন অরণ্য”
  • Bengali: “আমাজন বন”
  • Bengali: “আমাজন”
  • Bhojpuri: “अमेजन जंगल”
  • Bhojpuri: “अमेजन बन”
  • Bhojpuri: “अमेजन बरखाबन”
  • Bhojpuri: “अमेजोन रेनफॉरेस्ट”
  • Bosnian: “Amazonija”
  • Breton: “Amazonia”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазония”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонска гора”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонска джунгла”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонска екваториална гора”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонската гора”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонската джунгла”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонската низина”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонската тропическа гора”
  • Burmese: “အမေဇုန် မိုးသစ်တော”
  • Catalan: “Amazonia”
  • Catalan: “Amazònia”
  • Catalan: “Bosc amazònic”
  • Catalan: “Bosc de l’Amazones”
  • Catalan: “Jungla amazònica”
  • Catalan: “selva amazònica”
  • Catalan: “Selva amazònica”
  • Catalan: “Selva de l’Amazones”
  • Central Kurdish: “دارستانی ئەمازۆن”
  • Chinese: “亚马孙雨林”
  • Chinese: “亚马逊雨林”
  • Chinese: “亞馬孫雨林”
  • Chinese: “亞馬遜熱帶雨林”
  • Chinese: “亞馬遜雨林”
  • Corsican: “Amazonia”
  • Corsican: “Amazzonia”
  • Corsican: “Furesta amazonica”
  • Corsican: “Furesta amazzonica”
  • Croatian: “Amazonija”
  • Croatian: “Amazonska prašuma”
  • Czech: “Amazonské deštné pralesy”
  • Czech: “Amazonský deštný prales”
  • Czech: “Amazonský prales”
  • Danish: “Amazonas regnskov”
  • Danish: “Amazonas-regnskoven”
  • Danish: “Amazonjunglen”
  • Danish: “Amazonregnskoven”
  • Danish: “Amazonskoven”
  • Danish: “Regnskoven i Amazonas”
  • Dutch: “Amazon Rainforest”
  • Dutch: “Amazone regenwoud”
  • Dutch: “Amazone-regenwoud”
  • Dutch: “Amazoneregenwoud”
  • Dutch: “Amazonewoud”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “غابة الامازون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “غابه الامازون”
  • Esperanto: “Amazona arbaro”
  • Esperanto: “Amazona pluvarbaro”
  • Finnish: “Amazon”
  • Finnish: “Amazonia”
  • Finnish: “Amazonin sademetsä”
  • French: “foret amazonienne”
  • French: “forêt amazonienne”
  • French: “Forêt amazonienne”
  • French: “poumon de la Terre”
  • Galician: “Amazonia”
  • Galician: “Amazonía”
  • Galician: “Selva amazónica”
  • Georgian: “ამაზონის ჯუნგლები”
  • German: “Amazonas-Regenwald”
  • Greek: “Τροπικό δάσος του Αμαζονίου”
  • Guarani: “Amasónia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lanmanzonni”
  • Hausa: “Amazon”
  • Hebrew: “יער האמאזונאס”
  • Hebrew: “יער האמזונאס”
  • Hebrew: “יער האמזונס”
  • Hindi: “अमेज़न वन”
  • Hindi: “अमेज़न वर्षावन”
  • Hindi: “ऐमेज़ोन जंगल”
  • Hungarian: “amazóniai esőerdő”
  • Icelandic: “Amasónfrumskógurinn”
  • Indonesian: “Hutan Amazon”
  • Indonesian: “Hutan hujan Amazon”
  • Irish: “Foraois bháistí na hAmasóine”
  • Italian: “Amazzonia”
  • Italian: “Foresta amazzonica”
  • Japanese: “アマゾン熱帯雨林”
  • Kabyle: “Tiẓgi n Amaẓun”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೆಜಾನ್ ಮಳೆಕಾಡು”
  • Kirghiz: “Гилея”
  • Komering: “Pulan Hujan Amazon”
  • Korean: “아마조니아”
  • Korean: “아마존 우림”
  • Ladin: “Bosch dl’Amazonia”
  • Lao: “ປ່າດົງຕຶບໜາອາມາຊົນ”
  • Latin: “Silvae pluviales Amazoniae”
  • Latvian: “Amazones lietus mežs”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Amazonia”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonės baseinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonės džiunglės”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonės miškai”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonija”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonijos miškai”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonijos selva”
  • Macedonian: “Амазонија”
  • Maithili: “अमेजन रेनफरेस्ट”
  • Malagasy: “Amazônia”
  • Malay: “Hutan Amazon”
  • Malay: “Hutan hujan Amazon”
  • Malayalam: “ആമസോൺ മഴക്കാടുകൾ”
  • Marathi: “ॲमेझॉन वर्षावन”
  • Marathi: “अ‍ॅमेझॉन वर्षावन”
  • Mazanderani: “آمازون”
  • Mon: “ဂြိုပ်ဗြဲ အမဇြောန်”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “غابة د لأمازون”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لغابة د لأمازون”
  • Nepali: “अमेजन रेनफरेस्ट”
  • Nepali: “अमेजन वर्षावन”
  • Newari: “अमेजन वा-गुँ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Regnskogen amazonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Regnskogen i Amazonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Regnskogen y Amazonas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amazonas-regnskogen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regnskogen i Amazonas”
  • Norwegian: “Amazonasregnskogen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Seuva Amazonica”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܥܒܐ ܕܐܡܙܘܢ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਮੇਜ਼ਨ ਵਰਖਾ ਜੰਗਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਮਾਜ਼ੋਨ ਵਰਖਾ ਜੰਗਲ”
  • Persian: “آمازون”
  • Persian: “امازون”
  • Persian: “جنگل آمازون”
  • Persian: “جنگل امازون”
  • Persian: “جنگل بارانی آمازون”
  • Persian: “جنگل بارانی امازون”
  • Persian: “جنگل های آمازون”
  • Persian: “جنگل‌های آمازون”
  • Persian: “جنگلهای آمازون”
  • Persian: “جنگلهای امازون”
  • Persian: “جنگل‌های امازون”
  • Piemontese: “Amassònia”
  • Polish: “Amazonia”
  • Portuguese: “Amazônia”
  • Portuguese: “Floresta amazônica”
  • Portuguese: “Floresta Amazônica”
  • Portuguese: “Floresta equatorial da Amazônia”
  • Portuguese: “Hileia amazônica”
  • Portuguese: “selva amazônica”
  • Portuguese: “Selva amazônica”
  • Pushto: “امازون باراني ځنګل”
  • Quechua: “Amarumayu sach’a sach’a suyu”
  • Quechua: “Amarumayu sach’a-sach’a suyu”
  • Romanian: “Amazonia”
  • Romanian: “Pădurea Amazoniană”
  • Romanian: “Pădurea Amazonică”
  • Russian: “Амазонские джунгли”
  • Russian: “Амазонские леса”
  • Russian: “Дождевые леса Амазонии”
  • Sakizaya: “Ya-ma-sun-yi-lin”
  • Samogitian: “Amazuonėjė”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱢᱟᱡᱚᱱ ᱵᱤᱨ”
  • Serbian: “Amazonija”
  • Serbian: “Floresta Amazônica”
  • Serbian: “Амазонија”
  • Serbian: “Амазонска прашума”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amazonska prašuma”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමසෝන් වැසි වනාන්තරය”
  • Slovak: “Amazonský dažďový prales”
  • Slovak: “Amazonský prales”
  • Slovenian: “Amazonija”
  • Slovenian: “amazonski deževni gozd”
  • Slovenian: “Amazonski deževni gozd”
  • Slovenian: “amazonski gozd”
  • Slovenian: “amazonski pragozd”
  • Slovenian: “pljuča Zemlje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آمازون یاغیش مئشه‌لری”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آمازون یاغیش مشه‌لری”
  • Spanish: “Amazonas”
  • Spanish: “Amazonia”
  • Spanish: “Amazonía”
  • Spanish: “Amazónico”
  • Spanish: “Pulmón Verde”
  • Spanish: “Selva amazónica”
  • Spanish: “Selva Amazónica”
  • Spanish: “Selva del Amazonas”
  • Swahili: “Msitu wa Amazon”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas regnskog”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas”
  • Swedish: “Amazonia”
  • Tagalog: “Amazon rainforest”
  • Tagalog: “Amazonia”
  • Tamil: “அமேசான் காடு”
  • Tamil: “அமேசான் மழைக்காடு”
  • Telugu: “అమెజాన్ వర్షారణ్యం”
  • Thai: “ป่าดิบชื้นแอมะซอน”
  • Thai: “ป่าแอมะซอน”
  • Turkish: “Amazon ormanları”
  • Turkish: “Amazon Ormanları”
  • Turkish: “Amazon yağmur ormanları”
  • Ukrainian: “Амазонський дощовий ліс”
  • Urdu: “ایمیزون برساتی جنگل”
  • Uzbek: “Amazon oʻrmonlari”
  • Vietnamese: “Amazon”
  • Vietnamese: “rừng Amazon”
  • Vietnamese: “rừng mưa Amazon”
  • Vietnamese: “Rừng mưa Amazon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amazon Rainforest”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mauran nga kagurangan han Amason”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mauran nga kagurangan han Amazon”
  • Western Armenian: “Ամազոնի անտառներ”
  • Western Frisian: “Amazône-reinwâld”
  • Western Frisian: “Amazône-wâld”
  • Western Frisian: “Amazônereinwâld”
  • Western Frisian: “Amazônewâld”
  • Western Frisian: “Amazônje”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایمیزون برساتی جنگل”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚马逊雨林”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞馬遜雨林”
  • “Amazuonėjė”
  • “अमेजन जंगल”

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