Equator

There are rainforests in South and Central America, Africa, Oceania (the islands around Australia), and Asia. Tropical rainforests cover only about 7% of the Earth's surface.

The Equator is an imaginary line dividing the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere and is the widest line of latitude on Earth and is officially 0° latitude.

At the equator the sun is overhead at noon on the two Equinoxes. And at those two times the days are exactly equal length throughout the world.

Rainforests
Temperatures round the equator are high causing water to evaporate, evaporated water later falls back to the ground as rain and in rainy areas rainforests develop. Tropical rainforests are in a band round the equator between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer (That area is known as the tropics).

External links used as references

 * The Equator, Hemispheres, Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricorn
 * Equator (Geography)
 * Where are tropical rainforests?