Taiga, also known as the boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome and covers: in North America most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States; and in Eurasia most of Sweden, Finland, inland Norway, much of Russia, northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan (on the island of Hokkaidō). The term boreal forest is sometimes, particularly in Canada, used to refer to the more southerly part of the biome, while the term taiga is then often used to describe only the more barren areas of the northernmost part of the taiga approaching the tree line.
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taiga A biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches.
