Russia is home to the largest area of forest – 815 million hectares. Brazil, the United States, Canada, China, Australia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo also have a largest forest area – more than 100 million hectares each.

The Russian Federation had the largest forest area in the world in 2020, amounting to around 815 million hectares, more than twice that of Canada, whose forest area amounted to 347 million hectares.

At about 2,300,000 square miles in size, the Amazon rainforest is the largest and most biodiverse forest in the world. It spreads across Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, and the Republic of Suriname, and is home to one in ten of the wildlife species known (with new species being discovered almost daily).