Precipitation by country. Definition, graph and map.

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	Guinea:	3,784 mm
# 2	Solomon Islands:	3,290 mm
# 3	Sierra Leone:	2,946 mm
# 4	Gabon:	2,841 mm
# 5	Burma:	2,681 mm
# 6	Malaysia:	2,366 mm
# 7	Guyana:	2,262 mm
# 8	Seychelles:	2,172 mm
# 9	India:	2,168 mm
# 10	Singapore:	2,150 mm
# 11	Maldives:	1,951 mm
# 12	Trinidad and Tobago:	1,870 mm
# 13	Mauritius:	1,793 mm
# 14	Laos:	1,651 mm
# 15	Nigeria:	1,507 mm
# 16	Thailand:	1,498 mm
# 17	Madagascar:	1,459 mm
# 18	Dominican Republic:	1,448 mm
# 19	Japan:	1,406 mm
# 20	Slovenia:	1,393 mm
# 21	Korea, South:	1,371 mm
# 22	Bahamas, The:	1,360 mm
# 23	Paraguay:	1,333 mm
# 24	Australia:	1,304 mm
# 25	United States:	1,201 mm
# 26	Tanzania:	1,148 mm
= 27	Nicaragua:	1,147 mm
= 27	Argentina:	1,147 mm
# 29	New Zealand:	1,120 mm
# 30	Uruguay:	1,102 mm
# 31	Kenya:	1,063 mm
# 32	Rwanda:	1,028 mm
# 33	Ecuador:	1,026 mm
# 34	Korea, North:	1,001 mm
# 35	Italy:	944 mm
# 36	Germany:	933 mm
# 37	Malawi:	922 mm
# 38	Venezuela:	916 mm
= 39	Togo:	878 mm
= 39	Mali:	878 mm
# 41	Luxembourg:	875 mm
# 42	Honduras:	873 mm
# 43	Mexico:	848 mm
# 44	Lebanon:	825 mm
# 45	Iceland:	801 mm
# 46	Norway:	763 mm
# 47	Netherlands:	760 mm
# 48	United Kingdom:	754 mm
# 49	Portugal:	753 mm
# 50	Ireland:	731 mm
# 51	Turkey:	697 mm
# 52	Russia:	691 mm
= 53	Algeria:	686 mm
= 53	Poland:	686 mm
# 55	Lithuania:	683 mm
# 56	Dominica:	654 mm
# 57	Finland:	651 mm
# 58	France:	650 mm
# 59	Ukraine:	649 mm
# 60	Latvia:	636 mm
# 61	Austria:	607 mm
# 62	Romania:	595 mm
# 63	Tajikistan:	569 mm
# 64	Hungary:	563 mm
# 65	Malta:	553 mm
# 66	Moldova:	547 mm
# 67	Sweden:	539 mm
# 68	Czech Republic:	527 mm
# 69	Slovakia:	523 mm
# 70	South Africa:	520 mm
# 71	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:	507 mm
# 72	Georgia:	498 mm
# 73	Tunisia:	466 mm
# 74	Spain:	456 mm
# 75	Kyrgyzstan:	443 mm
# 76	Morocco:	426 mm
# 77	Uzbekistan:	420 mm
# 78	Greece:	371 mm
# 79	Cyprus:	320 mm
# 80	Afghanistan:	313 mm
# 81	Armenia:	277 mm
# 82	Jordan:	271 mm
# 83	Kazakhstan:	264 mm
# 84	Iran:	230 mm
# 85	Turkmenistan:	227 mm
# 86	Pakistan:	218 mm
# 87	Mongolia:	217 mm
# 88	Azerbaijan:	210 mm
# 89	Djibouti:	163 mm
# 90	Syria:	143 mm
# 91	Kuwait:	108 mm
# 92	United Arab Emirates:	89 mm
# 93	Qatar:	75 mm
# 94	Bahrain:	72 mm
# 95	Peru:	6 mm
	Weighted average:	962.7 mm

DEFINITION: Average Annual Precipitation in Largest City (mm, 1931-1960)

SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook

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COMMENTARY

Ian Graham
Staff Editor
21st March 2005

After six years of drought and the worst winter in a decade, heavy rains and melting snow have killed as many as 200 people in Afghanistan over the last several days.

In Farah province, 68 people have died in the floods. 40 more died in Faryab and Ghor provinces, while there were 115 confirmed deaths in Uruzgan province. U.S. military helicopters rescued 250 people about 70 kilometers northeast of the U.S. Army base at Kandahar after the Helmand River burst its banks.

Many houses were also wiped out by the floods, including almost 8,000 in Farah province, 2,500 in Heart province, and the houses of more than 260 families in Ghor province.

The average annual precipitation in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul is 313 millimeters.

Rose
5th March 2005

This site needs more info and tidying up. Also try making it simpler. And children would need more diagrams and graphics on climate and so on.

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