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Countries with the Most Total Precipitation

Can you guess the countries that have the greatest total amount of precipitation fall over their entire territory?
Based on multiplying land area times yearly precipitation
For the years 1991–2020. Source.
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Last updated: July 17, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 19, 2017
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km3 / year
Country
15,167
Brazil
8,122
Russia
7,449
United States
6,060
China
5,452
Canada
5,077
Indonesia
4,061
Australia
km3 / year
Country
3,540
India
3,506
D.R. Congo
2,882
Colombia
1,991
Peru
1,737
Venezuela
1,710
Argentina
1,465
Mexico
km3 / year
Country
1,449
Myanmar
1,417
Papua New Guinea
1,297
Angola
1,260
Bolivia
1,111
Nigeria
974
Malaysia
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Level ∞
Feb 19, 2017
Brazil gets enough rain annually to cover Jamaica over a kilometer deep.
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Level 85
Feb 19, 2017
I'm not an expert, but I think that would qualify as an act of war.
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Level 72
Jun 5, 2017
More like an act of water.
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Level 73
Feb 26, 2018
LOL to both of you!
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Level 16
Feb 26, 2018
Quizmaster didn't mean that brazil WOULD Spill water on Jamaica.

#BrainLogic

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Level 45
Apr 2, 2020
How else do you conquer Jamaica?
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Level 82
Feb 20, 2017
Or to cover it in almost 4m of rain every day.
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Level 66
Sep 19, 2019
That is much more effective than doing it once for a kilometer. 4m is enough to screw up most things anyway.
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Level 58
Dec 9, 2020
Plus not all of it would be able to drain by the next day, continuing getting higher everyday for a year. A kilometre would destroy like everything but it wouldn't make the island almost uninhabitable for an entire year. Plus it would drain a lot faster (comparatively) because it isn't continuing to pour
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Level 75
Nov 24, 2020
Brazil also gets enough rain to get Vatican City approximately 19,000 miles deep in water, which would reach eight percent of the way to the moon
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Level 74
Mar 14, 2023
I'm glad someone worked that out. It had to be done
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Level 76
Feb 20, 2017
Fascinating! Since most of Australia's land area is desert, its number is astonishing.
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Level 88
Feb 20, 2017
It's really big.
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Level ∞
Feb 20, 2017
And parts of Australia get a lot of precipitation. The country-wide average was higher than I expected. (53.4 cm per year).
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Level 82
Apr 6, 2018
Parts of Far North Queensland get phenomenal amounts of rain. The weather station at Bellenden Ker once received 5300mm in a single month.
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Level 75
Jun 4, 2022
Regional particulars acknowledged, I was still surprised to see Australia above Congo, Colombia, and India. I wonder how average precipitation levels are calculated. Average of all weather stations? If so, some types of places will be over-represented and others under-represented.
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Level 47
May 18, 2023
the east coast, the far north, Tasmania and the Adelaide hills get a lot of rain
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Level 75
Jun 10, 2023
Right, I acknowledge regional particulars. Now here are the regions of Congo that get a lot of rain: Congo.
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Level 82
Jul 19, 2022
One thing I didn't point out in my previous comment that is probably pertinent is that Australian desert isn't particularly dry by world standards. So while Australia may have more desert than any other country, much of that desert is still recording 200mm+ per annum, whereas much of the Atacama or Sahara is getting less 10mm per annum. I think this fact, plus the sheer size of the country, plus the exceedingly wet parts mentioned above combine to mean Australia makes it onto this quiz. It's worth noting that when adjusting for area, Australia is the driest country on this list only getting about a sixth of the rain per km2 of the wettest country, which is PNG (which incidentally is immediately adjacent to the aforementioned Far North Queensland).
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Level 72
Jun 5, 2017
Try this quiz http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/170770/australian-capitals-from-wettest-to-driest
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Level 60
Jun 5, 2017
There's a large part of northern Australia which is rainforest.
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Level 67
Jun 6, 2017
eastern
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Level 79
Apr 1, 2020
Northern, for rainforests.
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Level 90
Jun 6, 2022
Northern for tropical rainforest, but most of the east coast also has subtropical and temperate rainforests.
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Level 75
Jun 10, 2023
I wouldn't call it a large part. Compare satellite imagery of Australia and Congo, for example.
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Level 31
Feb 26, 2018
Just because it gets to the ground doesn't mean it stays there
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Level 81
Feb 20, 2017
Land size is obviously key here. I wonder what it would look like if the quiz were average rainfall per square km..
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Level 79
Feb 20, 2017
There's a link to the wettest country quiz in the hints. I believe this is exactly what you are looking for.
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Level 66
Feb 22, 2017
I would be totally different from this quiz.
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Level 66
Sep 19, 2019
would be a nice quiz though
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Level 84
Jun 5, 2017
Yeah, another spam the largest country quiz.
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Level 68
Jun 10, 2023
Excluding most of Africa, the Middle East and with a focus on South America.
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Level 69
Jun 5, 2017
I am surprised Chile is there, every time you see a documentary on the place they always show these arid deserts all over. Also surprised not to see Philippines or Malaysia or Vietnam which are humid tropical rain-forests.
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Level 76
Feb 26, 2018
It's talking about total volume of precipitation, so the area or the country factors into it heavily.
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Level 17
Apr 1, 2020
The Philippines don't get much rain. Sun, yes -- water, no (unless there's a lot of typhoons).
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Level 81
Apr 2, 2020
This is why I did not expect Bolivia to be here
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Level 76
Jun 12, 2023
Only a portion of Chile is arid. Same goes for Bolivia.
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Level 84
Apr 1, 2020
I feel bad for short people. Whenever it rains, they're always the last ones to know.
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Level 67
Apr 3, 2020
But the first to go, sadly.
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Level 50
Nov 8, 2020
Is this only talking about rain or does it include snow/sleet/hail
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Level 76
Jun 12, 2023
They're all forms of precipitation.
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Level 65
Jun 4, 2022
When Scotland becomes independent, it will immediately jump to number 1 on this list, haha
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Level 35
Jun 5, 2022
I kept typing ecuador whilst thinking of peru.

Surely enough its one of two countries i miss.

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Level 87
Jul 18, 2022
Since it's mostly large countries that aren't desert-y, I'm surprised Kazakhstan isn't on here.
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Level 90
Jul 28, 2022
Kazakhstan is "desert-y".
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Level 62
Aug 10, 2022
I typed every south american country except peru...
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Level 71
Jan 18, 2023
I didn't even think to guess Australia because of how high a percentage of its total surface area desert is. I mean, sure, I thought about it for a second, but thought to myself "Nah". Would it have hurt to try so that I could have gotten 20/20? Hmm... What happens to all that water, though? Where does it all go? Just out into the ocean?
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Level 74
Mar 14, 2023
Did you never study the water cycle in grade school? Precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, etc? Good stuff. Check it out.
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Level 42
Jun 10, 2023
Australia is a massive country, though, and there are many parts of the north that receives too much rain (hence deemed unfavorable by colonial settlers).
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Level 67
Jun 10, 2023
3:07 used, interesting how a lot of these you wouldn't immediately think of as receiving a lot of rain but simply because of the size of the country they're on the list