Which is the biggest Amazon in the World?

The anecdote about Amazon and its well-known name, Jeff Bezos, its founder, wanted to baptize his project with a name that reflected its enormous size, and so decided on Amazon, the South American river, the widest of the world, so wide that the next on in order of size is remarkably less distance.  Today we will analyse the size of Amazon in the different countries in which it operates to discover how big it is and which are the countries in which its bet in assortment is greater.

To do this study we have obtained the total of products for sale that Amazon has in each of the 14 countries in which it is present, this does not mean that each and every one of them are different products, in fact many of them will be repeated, but it is a good way of knowing the potential of the visible assortment. It is important to note that this information was extracted on April 26, 2017, as the Amazon catalogue is in continuous movement and the changes are constant. Below we can see the ranking of Amazon countries according to the products for sale:

As expected, the United States, the country where Amazon originated, has the highest number of products on sale, followed not far behind by the United Kingdom and Germany. The size of the host country does not seem to be at odds with Amazon's size, however in China the assortment is "barely" 17 million. So which are the markets where Amazon bets the most? If we break down the previous ranking by continents, we have:

1. Europe        1.226.917.548
2. America          628.140.670
3. Asia                 360.985.753
4. Oceania              5.702.087