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Contents 1 In geography 2 Companies 3 Literature 4 Television and film 5 Vehicles 6 Other 7 See also

Amazon or Amazons may refer to:

• Amazons, members of a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology
• any woman warrior
• Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey

[edit] In geography

• Amazon River in South America, the largest river in the world by volume
  • Amazon Rainforest (also known as Amazonia), a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America
  • Amazon Basin, the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries
  • Brazilian Amazon of the Amazon jungle, in Brazil
  • Peruvian Amazon (also known as Peruvian jungle or Amazonía Peruana), the Amazon jungle in the Peruvian territory

[edit] Companies

• Amazon.com, an American on-line sales company based in Seattle, Washington
• Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, an "independent feminist bookstore" in Minneapolis, Minnesota

[edit] Literature

• Amazons (DC Comics), legendary warrior women from the DC Comics universe associated with the superheroine Wonder Woman
• Swallows and Amazons (series), a series by Arthur Ransome
• Amazon (comics), also known as Man-Killer, a villain in the Marvel Comics universe

[edit] Television and film

• Amazons (1986 film), a 1986 Argentine adventure science fiction fantasy epic
• Amazon (1997 film), a 1997 documentary film
• Amazon (1999 TV series), a 1999 TV series adaptation of a Peter Benchley story
• Amazon (2008 TV series), a 2008 TV series by Bruce Parry
• Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1987 film written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland
• Amazon Women in the Mood, an episode from the 3rd season of Futurama.
• Kamen Rider Amazon, a Japanese television show.

[edit] Vehicles

• Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
• Amazon (automobile), an interwar British car
• HMS Amazon, the name of nine ships of the British Royal Navy
• USS Amazon (1861), US Navy, bark.
• Volvo Amazon, a car model from Volvo produced from 1956-1970

[edit] Other

• Amazon (Fairy chess piece), fairy chess piece which is used in some variants of chess
• Amazon: Guardians of Eden, computer game created by Access Software in 1992
• Amazon parrots, large genus of parrot from the Americas

[edit] See also

• Amazon feminism, dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact
• Amazonka, album by Ukrainian singer Ruslana, which translates to English as Amazon
• Amazonas (disambiguation)
• Game of the Amazons, a board game

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