Amazonia

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  • Type: tropical forest with 34,000,000 residents
  • Description: large rainforest in South America
  • Also known as: “Amarumayu sach’a sach’a suyu”, “Amasonië”, “Amazon forest”, “Amazon rain forest”, “Amazon rainforest”, “Amazon Rainforest”, “Amazon yağmur ormanları”, “Amazona pluvarbaro”, “Amazonas”, “Amazonas regnskov”, “Amazonas-regnskogen”, “Amazonas-regnskoven”, “Amazonasregenwald”, “Amazone regenwoud”, “Amazone-regenwoud”, “Amazône-reinwâld”, “Amazône-wâld”, “Amazônereinwâld”, “Amazonės baseinas”, “Amazonės džiunglės”, “Amazonės miškai”, “Amazonewoud”, “Amazonía”, “Amazònia”, “Amazonian rain forest”, “Amazonian rainforest”, “Amazónico”, “Amazonijos miškai”, “Amazonijos selva”, “Amazônje”, “Amazonjunglen”, “Amazonregnskoven”, “Amazons”, “Amazonské deštné pralesy”, “amazonski gozd”, “amazonski pragozd”, “Amazonskoven”, “Amazonský dažďový prales”, “Amazonský deštný prales”, “Bosc amazònic”, “Bosc de l’Amazones”, “Brazilian Amazon”, “Floresta Amazônica”, “Floresta equatorial da Amazônia”, “Foresta amazzonica”, “foret amazonienne”, “Furesta amazonica”, “Hileia amazônica”, “Jungla amazònica”, “Mauran nga kagurangan han Amason”, “Pădurea Amazonică”, “pljuča Zemlje”, “poumon de la Terre”, “Pulmón Verde”, “Regnskogen amazonas”, “Regnskogen y Amazonas”, “rừng Amazon”, “Selva Amazónica”, “selva amazônica”, “Selva amazônica”, “Selva de l’Amazones”, “Selva del Amazonas”, “Амазония”, “Амазонска гора”, “Амазонската гора”, “Амазонската джунгла”, “Амазонската низина”, “Амазонската тропическа гора”, “Амазонские джунгли”, “Амазонские леса”, “יער האמאזונאס”, “יער האמזונס”, “الأمازون”, “امازون”, “جنگل امازون”, “جنگل بارانی آمازون”, “جنگل بارانی امازون”, “جنگل های آمازون”, “جنگلهای آمازون”, “جنگل‌های امازون”, “جنگلهای امازون”, “غابات الأمازون”, “अमेजन बन”, “अमेजन बरखाबन”, “अमेज़न वन”, “अमेजोन रेनफॉरेस्ट”, “ऐमेज़ोन जंगल”, “আমাজন”, “আমাজন বন”, “அமேசான் காடு”, “ป่าแอมะซอน”, “아마조니아”, “亞馬孫雨林”, and “亞馬遜熱帶雨林”

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”
  • Albanian: “amazone”
  • Albanian: “Pylli i Amazonës”
  • 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: “আমাজোনিয়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “अमेजन जंगल”
  • Bosnian: “Amazonija”
  • Breton: “Amazonia”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонска джунгла”
  • Bulgarian: “Амазонска екваториална гора”
  • Burmese: “အမေဇုန် မိုးသစ်တော”
  • Catalan: “selva amazònica”
  • Catalan: “Selva amazònica”
  • Central Kurdish: “دارستانی ئەمازۆن”
  • Chinese: “亚马孙雨林”
  • Chinese: “亞馬遜雨林”
  • Corsican: “Furesta amazzonica”
  • Croatian: “Amazonska prašuma”
  • Czech: “Amazonský prales”
  • Danish: “Regnskoven i Amazonas”
  • Dutch: “Amazoneregenwoud”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “غابة الامازون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “غابه الامازون”
  • Esperanto: “Amazona arbaro”
  • Finnish: “Amazonin sademetsä”
  • French: “forêt amazonienne”
  • French: “Forêt amazonienne”
  • Galician: “selva amazónica”
  • Galician: “Selva amazónica”
  • Georgian: “ამაზონის ჯუნგლები”
  • German: “Amazonas-Regenwald”
  • Greek: “Τροπικό δάσος του Αμαζονίου”
  • Guarani: “Amasónia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lanmanzonni”
  • Hausa: “Amazon”
  • Hebrew: “יער האמזונאס”
  • Hindi: “अमेज़न वर्षावन”
  • Hungarian: “amazóniai esőerdő”
  • Icelandic: “Amasónfrumskógurinn”
  • Indonesian: “Hutan Amazon”
  • Indonesian: “Hutan hujan Amazon”
  • Irish: “Foraois bháistí na hAmasóine”
  • Italian: “Amazzonia”
  • Japanese: “アマゾン熱帯雨林”
  • Kabyle: “Tiẓgi n Amaẓun”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೆಜಾನ್ ಮಳೆಕಾಡು”
  • Kirghiz: “Гилея”
  • Komering: “Pulan Hujan Amazon”
  • Korean: “아마존 우림”
  • Ladin: “Bosch dl’Amazonia”
  • Lao: “ປ່າດົງຕຶບໜາອາມາຊົນ”
  • Latin: “Silvae pluviales Amazoniae”
  • Latvian: “Amazones lietus mežs”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Amazonia”
  • Lithuanian: “Amazonija”
  • Macedonian: “Амазонија”
  • Maithili: “अमेजन रेनफरेस्ट”
  • Malagasy: “Amazônia”
  • 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 i Amazonas”
  • 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: “جنگل آمازون”
  • Persian: “جنگل‌های آمازون”
  • Piemontese: “Amassònia”
  • Polish: “Amazonia”
  • Portuguese: “Amazônia”
  • Portuguese: “Floresta amazônica”
  • Pushto: “امازون باراني ځنګل”
  • Quechua: “Amarumayu sach’a-sach’a suyu”
  • Romanian: “Pădurea Amazoniană”
  • Russian: “Дождевые леса Амазонии”
  • Sakizaya: “Ya-ma-sun-yi-lin”
  • Samogitian: “Amazuonėjė”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱢᱟᱡᱚᱱ ᱵᱤᱨ”
  • Serbian: “Amazonija”
  • Serbian: “Амазонија”
  • Serbian: “Амазонска прашума”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amazonska prašuma”
  • Sinhala: “ඇමසෝන් වැසි වනාන්තරය”
  • Slovak: “Amazonský prales”
  • Slovenian: “amazonski deževni gozd”
  • Slovenian: “Amazonski deževni gozd”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آمازون یاغیش مئشه‌لری”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آمازون یاغیش مشه‌لری”
  • Spanish: “Amazonia”
  • Spanish: “Selva amazónica”
  • Swahili: “Msitu wa Amazon”
  • Swedish: “Amazonas regnskog”
  • Tagalog: “Amazonia”
  • Tamil: “அமேசான் மழைக்காடு”
  • Telugu: “అమెజాన్ వర్షారణ్యం”
  • Thai: “ป่าดิบชื้นแอมะซอน”
  • Turkish: “Amazon ormanları”
  • Turkish: “Amazon Ormanları”
  • Ukrainian: “Амазонський дощовий ліс”
  • Urdu: “ایمیزون برساتی جنگل”
  • Uzbek: “Amazon oʻrmonlari”
  • Vietnamese: “rừng mưa Amazon”
  • Vietnamese: “Rừng mưa Amazon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mauran nga kagurangan han Amazon”
  • Western Armenian: “Ամազոնի անտառներ”
  • Western Frisian: “Amazônewâld”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایمیزون برساتی جنگل”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚马逊雨林”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞馬遜雨林”
  • “अमेजन जंगल”

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