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The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
Shares of global wealth (%) of the ten wealthiest countries by net national wealth for 2000–09 Year Australia Canada China France Germany India Italy Japan South Korea Spain United Kingdom United States Aggregate share of the top 10 2000 — 2.2%: 3.1%: 4.0%: 5.2% — 4.7%: 16.5%: 1.5%: 2.1%: 5.6%: 36.9%: 81.8%: 2001 — 2.1%: 3.6%: 4.0%: 5.2 ...
Below is a list of Amazon's retail locations, as of September 2021. Most of the stores are located inside of the United States, but Whole Foods also operates stores in Canada and the United Kingdom, while Amazon Go has six locations in London under the Amazon Fresh name. [80] [81] Whole Foods Market (527) [82] [83] Amazon Books (24) Amazon Go (30)
Two of the top ten rivers by discharge are tributaries of the Amazon river. The Amazon represents 20% of the global riverine discharge into oceans. [26] The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, with an area of approximately 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi). [3]
Map of the United States with Ohio highlighted. Ohio is a state located in the Midwestern United States. Cities in Ohio are municipalities whose population is no less than 5,000; smaller municipalities are called villages. Nonresident college students and incarcerated inmates do not count towards the city requirement of 5,000 residents. [1]
The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil estimated that at least 7,747 km 2 (2,991 sq mi) of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest were cleared during the first half of 2019. [64] INPE subsequently reported that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached a 12-year high between August 2019 and July 2020.
The Human Development Report includes data for all 193 member states of the United Nations, [ 16] as well as Hong Kong SAR and the State of Palestine. However, the Human Development Index is not calculated for two UN member states: DPR Korea (North Korea) and Monaco, only some components of the index are calculated for these two countries.
In 2014, about 40 countries signed the New York Declaration on Forests, a voluntary pledge to halve deforestation by 2020 and end it by 2030. The agreement was not legally binding, however, and some key countries, such as Brazil, China, and Russia, did not sign onto it. As a result, the effort failed, and deforestation increased from 2014 to 2020.