Friday, February 21, 2020

Top 14 largest forests on Earth

This post is an attempted list of the largest forests on Earth. This post is a work in progress as I find more forests that belong on this list. There are 14 forests listed below.

1. Tiaga (North America, Europe, Asia) - 17 million km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, L. B. Brubaker



2. Amazon Rainforest (South America) - 7 million km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Neal Palmer (CIAT)
License: CC BY-SA 2.0



3. Congo Basin (Central Africa) - 3.7 million km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Antoine Penda
License: CC BY-SA 4.0



4. Central Zambezian miombo woodlands (South Central Africa) - 1.8 million km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Grahamcole
License: CC BY-SA 4.0



5. Atlantic Forest (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina) - 1.3 million km sq
License: CC BY-SA 2.0



6. Valdivian temperate rain forest (Chile, Argentina) - 248,000 km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Rodolfo Andres Sanchez S.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0



7. Eastern Great Lakes lowand forests (United States, Canada) - 116,000 km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, jockrutherford
License: CC BY-SA 2.0



8. Tongass National Forest (Alaska) - 68,000 km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Brad Hunter



9. Sumatra Rainforest (Indonesia) - 25,000 km sq
License: CC BY-SA 4.0



10. Bosawas Biosphere Reserve (Nicaragua) - 20,000 km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Rebecca One
License: CC BY-SA 3.0



11. Lacandon Jungle (Mexico, Honduras) - 19,000 km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Carlos Rojas



12. Sundarbans (Bangladesh, India) - 10,000 km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Pratyaya Ghoshal Das
License: CC BY-SA 4.0



13. Black Forest (Germany) - 6,000 km sq
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Andrea Eichier (Hockei)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0



14. Sequoia National Forest (United States) - 4,800 km sq
License: CC BY-SA 3.0

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