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Jungle vs. Forest

Dense tropical growth versus any area of trees.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

Canada has vast jungles.

✓ Correct

Canada has vast forests — boreal forests. Jungle is dense tropical growth, mostly in the tropics.

The ruleii

JUNGLE = dense tropical. FOREST = trees.

FOREST is the general term — any area of dense trees. JUNGLE is specifically dense, tangled vegetation in tropical or subtropical regions — hard to walk through. All jungles are forests; not all forests are jungles.

Memory aidiii

Remember it like this

Forests are any trees. Jungles are tropical thickets.

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