Countries with the Most Precipitation

I missed the only 3 African countries...

I put Colombia as a joke... and got it!

I don't get it.

How did i manage to try every south American country but not Colombia?

For me I tried EVERY Oceanian country except Fiji! (forgot about it)

Was surprised how East Timor cannot be here when all surrounding countries are represented in this list.

Same, that really threw me off. Especially since it's so tiny; it's not like the weather has room to be THAT much different from surrounding countries.

So maybe there's just no data for it?

Yes but Indonesia is huge and Timor is far from being it's wettest Island. I suppose Indonesia ranks that high because of huge islands with Equatorial Climate characteristics like Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea and Sulawesi. Timor is in the southern part of the country and like the southern coast of New Guinea and Cape York, it tends to shift to a Tropical Climate with dry and monsoon seasons.

What's more surprising is that Grenada, Barbados, Suriname and Guyana are here and not Trinidad...

Looks like Trinidad is #23 on the list, with about 20 cm per year less than St Lucia.

Fun one!

Surprising that Gabon and both Congos didn't make the list.

When Sao Tome showed up I expected Equatorial Guinea to be right near it too

At first I thought you were asking for countries with places that had the highest totals of precipitation, which is different from countries with the highest average rainfall. I couldn't figure out why the US wasn't appearing, since Kauai and Maui are a couple of the wettest places on earth.

I second this, I did really poorly as I didn't know what the quiz was asking, it should be made more clear that it is based on size.

This is one of the tougher geography quizzes. Bravo!

Was really surprised Brazil wasn't number one, or even on the list. What happened to the Amazon rain forest? And what about India with the monsoons? Good quiz though.

Slightly less than 40% of Brazil is covered by the Amazon Rainforest - large portions are tropical or subtropical grasslands. India also has large deserts and semi-arid portions and the monsoon only takes up a part of the year. As a general rule large countries will have a harder time making it onto a list like this, because they tend to encompass a range of climates, both wet and dry. My home of Australia, for example is often thought of in terms of its vast, dry deserts, but it also has wet tropical rainforests (the Daintree, for example) and snowy alpine regions (literally, the Snowy Mountains), and tropical savannas (in Cape York, for example) as well as plenty of dry scherophyll forest (generically, 'the Bush'). Thus smaller nations typically dominate. I'm actually surprised Colombia makes it, because although much of it is in the Amazon basin and the Pacific side of the Andes gets plenty of rain (Quibdo is about the wettest city on Earth), it also has deserts like La Guajira.

It would be good to change the title to something that makes it clear this is precipitation per square kilometer (or whatever the unit is). Otherwise, it is very confusing how countries like Brazil do not appear here.

I got 9 countries

I think, living here that it is impossible Ireland is not on this list

A good example of perception versus reality. It is very often rainy and cloudy in places like Ireland, Uk and the Netherlands, but the quantity of acual rain is not that bad. Very often it's very light rain compared to the monsoons of the tropics. You'll definitely experience much more lcoudy, dreary and wet weather though, than someone getting 1 hour of downpour and sunshine after. :)

Very interesting quiz.

I am really surprised by Solomon Islands being third!

Just for laughs, where is The UK ranked on this list?

Looks like this has the same data:

https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/AG.LND.PRCP.MM/rankings

UK is #72!

Yeah, I was just going to mention that! I was also surprised by the lack of some other SE Asian countries like Thailand and Vietnam.

must've tried every country in west africa besides liberia and sierra leone

So you tried Mauritania, but not Liberia? Weird...

It was an exaggeration.

There are no European countries?

How about Brazil? You'd think a country with the largest rainforest in the world would have A LOT of precipitation.