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# Acquiring Land

The Amazon rainforest in its entirety is massive. It is nearly the size of the continental United States and spans nine countries within South America.

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Brazil itself accounts for 58% of the Amazon, covering around 420M hectares of land, (1.03B acres) roughly half of which is privately owned, or government non-regulated land.