Tropical Rainforest Locations Around The World

Over 3 ½ million square kilometres of Africa is tropical forest.

Tropical rainforest locations around the world. Smaller rainforests are located in Central America Madagascar Australia and nearby islands India and other locations in the tropics. They grow in areas of high rainfall in West Central and East Africa. Tropical rainforests can be found in Brazil Colombia Bolivia Chile Sub-Saharan Africa Myanmar Papua New Guinea Australia and the list goes on.

Tropical rainforests have existed on earth for hundreds of millions of years. 25 of the worlds tropical rainforests are located in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. More specifically between the Tropic Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Bangladesh has the largest area of mangrove forests in the world. These forests are quite common in the tropical regions. The largest rainforests are in the Amazon River Basin South America the Congo River Basin western Africa and throughout much of southeast Asia.

One-third of the worlds tropical rainforests are in the Brazil region of the world. Rainforests are located in the tropical climate region. Total 57 of all tropical rainforests are found in Latin America.

They are South America West Africa Australia Southern India and South East Asia. Total 18 are located in West Africa. The Amazon Rainforest is currently the largest tropical rainforest biome in the world.

Africas rainforests are under continual threat. A tropical rainforest typically has several layers such as the emergent canopy understory and forest floor each with different types of plants and animals adapted for life in that. Other countries that have large areas of rainforest include Bolivia Cameroon Central African Republic Ecuador Gabon Guyana India Laos Malaysia Mexico Myanmar Papua New Guinea Republic of Congo Suriname and Venezuela.