Wanderlust World Wanderlust World When comparing the Amazon rainforest to Wales, the scale difference is staggering. The Amazon basin covers approximately 5.5 million square kilometers, while Wales occupies about 20,779 square kilometers. Simple division reveals that the Amazon is roughly 265 times larger than Wales.
To visualize this: you could fit the entire country of Wales into the Amazon rainforest more than two hundred and sixty times. This comparison underscores the Amazon's status as the planet's largest tropical rainforest, a biome of global climatic and ecological significance that spans nine South American nations.