Penguins mainly live in the southern hemisphere. It is known that there are 17 or 18 species of penguins in the world, most of which are distributed in the Antarctic region, and there are also penguins in Cape Town, a popular tourist city in South Africa on the African continent. Among them, Humboldt Penguin, Magellan Penguin and Blackfoot Penguin, which are ring penguins, are distributed in temperate regions with lower latitudes, while Galapagos Penguin is closer to the equator. Only emperor penguins and Adelie penguins live completely in the polar regions.

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There are not many species of Antarctic penguins, but the number is considerable. According to long-term observation and estimation by ornithologists, there are nearly 65.438+0.2 billion penguins in the Antarctic region, accounting for 87% of the total number of penguins in the world and 90% of the total number of Antarctic seabirds. The largest number is Adele penguins, about 50 million, followed by crested penguins, about 3 million, and the least number is emperor penguins, about 570 thousand.

Reference Penguin (Animal Name) _ Baidu Encyclopedia?