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Countries with the Least Precipitation

Can you guess the countries that have the lowest average yearly precipitation?
For the years 1991-2020. Source.
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First submittedNovember 21, 2015
Times taken62,007
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Precipitation
Country
2.5 cm
Egypt
4.4 cm
Libya
5.5 cm
Oman
6.2 cm
United Arab Emirates
7.2 cm
Qatar
8.9 cm
Bahrain
9.1 cm
Algeria
Precipitation
Country
10.2 cm
Saudi Arabia
10.7 cm
Mauritania
10.8 cm
Jordan
12.4 cm
Kuwait
14.7 cm
Turkmenistan
16.8 cm
Niger
17.1 cm
Yemen
Precipitation
Country
20.0 cm
Djibouti
20.9 cm
Iraq
22.0 cm
Iran
22.7 cm
Morocco
23.0 cm
Uzbekistan
24.1 cm
Mongolia
Elan
+6
Level 65
Feb 2, 2016
I fit the curve perfectly, getting everything through Mongolia.
RabidPony
+8
Level 39
Jun 9, 2017
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.
smartguy2
+5
Level 67
Jan 27, 2018
Well Israel and Jordan border the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan doesn't. Lebanon doesn't even have a desert.
tzhg
+6
Level 59
Jul 1, 2020
He meant "Israel and Lebanon border the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan doesn't".
SundarIsaacs
+1
Level 59
Feb 2, 2016
Good quiz.
TomatosRaafatos
+4
Level 73
Feb 2, 2016
I'm surprised Egypt takes the top spot...how is it dryer than Kuwait or Saudi Arabia? How exactly were these measurments taken?
Djilas
+3
Level 82
Feb 20, 2017
Saudi gets some rain from Red Sea maybe
PenguinTorpedo
+7
Level 49
Apr 9, 2020
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.
marcopolo1
+7
Level 48
Jul 1, 2020
And it still has 100 million people..incredible
TomatosRaafatos
+10
Level 73
Jul 1, 2020
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.
JWatson24
+10
Level 71
Sep 14, 2020
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.
TomatosRaafatos
+4
Level 73
May 21, 2022
Yup, tell me about it. The Ethiopian dam is hugely controversial, to say the least, and something of great concern to us Egyptians everywhere. Of course, we all blame the ridiculously incompetent dealing with the issue of our dearly beloved Presi... erhh... I mean minister of foreign affairs. All hail our lord and savior general Susu :P
quizwhizz
+13
Level 67
Feb 2, 2016
And unsurprisingly, the United Kingdom is not on this list...
plattitude
+5
Level 92
Feb 3, 2016
And yet, in a stunning turn of events, it's raining in England as I take this quiz...
Lilylee
+3
Level 74
Feb 2, 2016
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
Cedo
+36
Level 40
Feb 4, 2016
And please accept Cherry for Kyrgyzstan cause I don't want to remember "Kyrgyzstan".
Gyrenaica
+10
Level 35
Feb 9, 2016
No they aren't
clivey
+4
Level 68
Feb 4, 2016
And Carrotstan and Kazakhstan please.
yoyo541
+1
Level 28
Feb 5, 2016
u forgot chile. It holds the atacama desert
joeythelemur
+10
Level 84
Jul 6, 2016
Lots of countries have deserts. That doesn't make them the driest countries.
Gabisolarboy
+2
Level 52
Apr 25, 2020
Actually, Chile is one of the wettest countries.
Ferinoze
+5
Level 61
Jul 2, 2020
No its not.
KennethTAA
+2
Level 61
Nov 7, 2022
yes it is
CaptainUnderpant
+1
Level 79
Oct 15, 2023
It's not really either, but it is wetter than most countries
Moon101
+1
Level 38
Feb 5, 2016
I thought Antarctica was going to be at the bottom of this list
kalbahamut
+6
Level 82
Feb 12, 2016
Not a country, for the purposes of this quiz.
BrandonJ
+2
Level 62
Jan 27, 2018
Typed every -stan except the correct ones...
dewey1971
+7
Level 68
Jan 27, 2018
No rain in Bahrain. How did I miss just that one?
ing
+8
Level 72
Jul 3, 2020
Bah!
ruudsje
+1
Level 69
Jan 27, 2018
the 'stans' keep tripping me up. forgot uzbekistan, got cape verde though
kiwikiwiNZ
+1
Level 40
Oct 26, 2019
spelled saudi arabia wrong and thought it wasnt the right answer oof
VARRO
+4
Level 47
Jul 1, 2020
bahRAIN
Ak5
+4
Level 44
May 21, 2022
in arabic, bahrain means 2 seas
evilcheeser
+4
Level 72
May 22, 2022
I always find quizzes about average rainfall to be ambiguous - is it average as in, averaging out across years? or, average as in that but also average across the whole surface area?

Like, the coast of Egypt along the Mediterranean gets way more than 24cm of rain annually, but then there's a massive desert that's way way bigger than the coast which is also in the country. So does that bring the 'average' way down or is it just adding a negligible amount to the existing number?

Maybe it's just me, but it always bugs me that that isn't established in the preamble, so the answer only becomes apparent after you've started guessing.

CaptainUnderpant
+1
Level 79
Oct 15, 2023
Yes, it's averaged across both years and the whole area of the country. Like you point out, the Mediterranean coast of Egypt gets far more rain than the country average which, for any given year is pulled way down by the fact that most of Egypt is a desert and gets basically no rain. Even so, a city like Alexandria would still probably be drier than most of the countries on the list for any given year, so it's not as if the data is skewed enormously by the averages. It's quite inaccurate to say that Egypt as a whole receives only an inch of precipitation per year, but it is still by and large quite a dry country.
French2010
+1
Level 93
Jul 16, 2022
Morocco, Algeria, then Libya, Egypt? Curious what causes the precipitation pattern to be different in Tunisia to exclude it from this list?
Djilas
+5
Level 82
Jul 17, 2022
Smaller share of desert area I guess, they all get rain in the mountains.
Justmedd
+1
Level 34
Jan 6, 2023
yes tunisia gets more rain especially in the north and have more rain forest and green then the others
Findlay
+1
Level 82
Jul 17, 2022
Interesting that countries that contain some of the world's most arid areas like Chile and Peru don't make the list, because they also contain areas of extremely high precipitation. Also Australia, despite being the world's most arid inhabited continent and the country with the most desert doesn't make it, probably because Australian desert is pretty mild by world standards - Birdsville, Queensland gets 167mm a year, as opposed to 6mm for Lima, Peru.

Also, is it just me or is cm a weird way to measure precipitation? Isn't mm the standard?

oliviadotcom
+1
Level 86
Jul 17, 2022
It would be helpful if this one had region indicators as with the most precipitation quiz!
CaptainUnderpant
+1
Level 79
Oct 15, 2023
They'd all just be Africa or Asia
mf3
+1
Level 87
Jul 18, 2022
Don't remember getting rained on much in Eritrea, Sudan, or Chad (all adjacent to one of the listed countries).
CaptainUnderpant
+3
Level 79
Oct 15, 2023
Sudan #22, Chad #30, Eritrea #33. Also, while I hope you had a lovely time in those countries, it seems unreasonable to assume your experiences there would necessarily correlate to averaged precipitation over the entire area for 30 years.
BroderG
+1
Level 45
Oct 17, 2023
No rain in Bahrain
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