8. Colombia
Total – 51
Next up on our list of most biodiverse countries in the world is Colombia, another nation that’s up in the northern area of the South American continent, right next door to Venezuela. The country’s flora is staggering, a whopping 130,000 species have been described here. Venezuela’s national flower is the beautiful orchid Cattleya trianae and the nation is home to the largest amount of endemic species, namely plants that are not found naturally anywhere else in the world.
When it comes to animals, there are over 1,800 species of birds, which is more than the number of species in North America and Europe combined, with the national bird being the Andean condor.
There are also 456 species of mammals reported in Colombia, nearly a quarter of them being on the endangered or critically endangered lists. There are also some 208 endangered species of amphibians living here and a few dozen species of reptiles.
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