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Countries with tropical rainforest
Name all countries where at least part of the territory is naturally covered by tropical rainforest
Not including overseas territories or regions
Based on a combination of these two maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Köppen_climate_classification#/media/File:Köppen-Geiger_Climate_Classification_Map.png and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_and_subtropical_moist_broadleaf_forests
Drawing a boundary between what is a rainforest and what is not is difficult. However, this is the closest I could get.
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One of my main challenges was differentiating between tropical moist forests and tropical rainforests, as some moist forests could be considered rainforests while others are fully or semi-deciduous and/or slightly too dry to be called "true" rainforests.
For some countries, like Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Laos, I had to google whether they had true rainforests or just moist forests. As far as I could find, neither of them had genuine rainforests, but I am definitely open to being corrected on that. The same goes for the moist forests of coastal East Africa.
Obviously, since the quiz deals with tropical rainforests, any forests outside areas with a tropical climate were excluded.
Just out of curiosity, which would you argue I should have included or excluded?
Those are classifed as Cfa (Temperate - no dry season - hot summer), as opposed to anything under A~ (Tropical -).
(I mean, you could certainly argue that those aren't the appropriate sources to use, and that e.g.: the list indicated by @DocEckleburg above would be a better one. But based on the sources indicated by the quiz setter, the exclusion of Argentina is correct.)
I'm absolutely not disputing you or anything! I'm really just curious how you came up with this list. You say in the description that you "based [it] on a combination of [the] two maps" from Wikipedia showing Köppen-Geiger Climate Classifications and Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, but as a GIS guy, I'm curious how you got from those maps to the list of answers.
When I squint at those maps, it looks to me like you took the union of areas with Köppen class Af (Tropical rainforest) and Am (Tropical monsoon), then intersected it with all the green regions on the other map indicating presence of TMSF (tropical moist forest). Is that generally accurate?
Thanks! 😊
Yes that is generally correct. In a few cases, like Bangladesh and Laos, I had to google whether the Am areas that were categorized as moist forests were really rainforests. As far as I could find, their moist forests were at least semi-deciduous, which in my book means they fall short of being called "true" rainforests.
Again though, drawing the boundary between moist forests and rainforests is difficult 😅