The Amazon rainforest also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America This basin encompasses 7000000 square kilometres 2700000 sq mi of which 5500000 square kilometres 2100000 sq mi are covered by the rainforest This region includes territory belonging to nine nations The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil with 60 of the rainforest followed by Peru with 13 Colombia with 10 and with minor amounts in Venezuela Ecuador Bolivia Guyana Suriname and French Guiana States or departments in four nations contain Amazonas in their names The Amazon represents over half of the planets remaining rainforests and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16000 species