Talk:Amazon rainforest
Latest comment: 8 May by Rome in topic Area discrepancy: 5,500,000 km² vs 6,000,000 km²
Area discrepancy: 5,500,000 km² vs 6,000,000 km²
The article gives two significantly different figures for the area of the Amazon rainforest. The infobox lists the area as 5,500,000 km², but the opening paragraph states that of the Amazon basin's 7,000,000 km², "6,000,000 km² are covered by the rainforest." The difference between these two figures for the rainforest area is 500,000 km² — roughly 8.3% — and neither is marked as a subset measurement or a different definition of the forest boundary. Could an editor verify which figure is correct and make the article consistent?