Same except for Jordan. I tried Israel and Lebanon and then gave up on that region... I also didn't bother to try Djibouti after Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia failed.
egypt is not "drier" than those countries, they it has the Nile. But practiclly all of the water from the nile comes from Ethiopia Sudan Uganda area. Actual Egypt gets next to no actual rain.
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.
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.
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
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!!
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.PRCP.MM
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.
I was surprised that Mali, Chad, Syria and Kazakhstan weren't on the list.