Countries with the Least Precipitation

Cape Verde is drier than Chad?

Guess it's not that verde then.

I fit the curve perfectly, getting everything through Mongolia.

Well Israel and Jordan border the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan doesn't. Lebanon doesn't even have a desert.

He meant "Israel and Lebanon border the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan doesn't".

only missed cape verde...hard one! but now i know!

I'm surprised Egypt takes the top spot...how is it dryer than Kuwait or Saudi Arabia? How exactly were these measurments taken?

Saudi gets some rain from Red Sea maybe

And it still has 100 million people..incredible

But I lived in both Egypt and the Persian Gulf region, and I can tell you that it rains much more frequently and heavily in the Nile Delta than anywhere in the eastern half of the Arabian Peninsula. I expected Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait to have less precipitation. I think it's the average rainfall over the total area the counts, and Egypt has a huge desert region, but even gets less than half the rainfall that Libya gets? Surprising for me.

Yeah, Egypt is somewhat surprising for the top spot. Expected it to be on this list, but wasn't expecting it to be the top spot. Even so, I've read in recent articles that for all intents and purposes, the Nile is the only water source for the vast majority of Egypt's 100 million people... which is why the dam being filled up in Ethiopia is a major concern for them.

Cape Verde can't be that "dry", It's a couple of tiny islands surrounded by water!!

Nor any drop to drink.

It's at least as dry as my martini.

This quiz is about which countries get the least precipitation. Precipitation basically means 'rainfall', so having water around it won't mean anything. Yes, it is an island nation, however this does not mean that it will have a high precipitation rate.

I know, I get that, I was just joking.

The only country I didn't manage to get in the quiz, once I've seen it it makes perfect sense with where it is.

And unsurprisingly, the United Kingdom is not on this list...

And yet, in a stunning turn of events, it's raining in England as I take this quiz...

Please accept "Igypt" for "Egypt" and "Lybya" for Libya" and "Saudi Arebia" for "Saudi Arabia" and "Kwatar" for "Qatar" etc. many of these places are so hard to spell!!!11

And please accept Cherry for Kyrgyzstan cause I don't want to remember "Kyrgyzstan".

No they aren't

And Carrotstan and Kazakhstan please.

u forgot chile. It holds the atacama desert

Lots of countries have deserts. That doesn't make them the driest countries.

Actually, Chile is one of the wettest countries.

I thought Antarctica was going to be at the bottom of this list

Not a country, for the purposes of this quiz.

Only missed Cape Verde.

I was surprised that Mali, Chad, Syria and Kazakhstan weren't on the list.

Chad and Mali have quite a bit of jungle in the south. Kazakhstan has the Aral Sea, which regularly floods the entire country when it rains.

Hi I'm from the year 2050. What sea are you talking about? Never heard of it.

The meanings of 'sea' and 'lake' are mixed up in some languages. Yes, I know you were joking.

Floods the entire country? the 9th largest country in the world is completely flooded by a small dried out sea when it rains? xD

No rain in Bahrain. How did I miss just that one?

the 'stans' keep tripping me up. forgot uzbekistan, got cape verde though

I got Cape Verde and missed the UAE.

spelled saudi arabia wrong and thought it wasnt the right answer oof

I was JUST going to type Cape Verde in (and was in fact half way on typing the whole country name), but then I thought it's not very probable to be correct, so I then deleted it!!

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