Geography > Precipitation: Countries Compared

Author: Ian Graham, Staff Editor

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. <p>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. <p>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. <p>The average annual precipitation in Afghanistanâ€™s capital Kabul is 313 millimeters.

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

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Guinea	3,784 mm	1960
2	Solomon Islands	3,290 mm	1960
3	Sierra Leone	2,946 mm	1960
4	Gabon	2,841 mm	1960
5	Burma	2,681 mm	1960
6	Malaysia	2,366 mm	1960
7	Guyana	2,262 mm	1960
8	Seychelles	2,172 mm	1960
9	India	2,168 mm	1960
10	Singapore	2,150 mm	1960
11	Maldives	1,951 mm	1960
12	Trinidad and Tobago	1,870 mm	1960
13	Mauritius	1,793 mm	1960
14	Laos	1,651 mm	1960
15	Nigeria	1,507 mm	1960
16	Thailand	1,498 mm	1960
17	Madagascar	1,459 mm	1960
18	Dominican Republic	1,448 mm	1960
19	Japan	1,406 mm	1960
20	Slovenia	1,393 mm	1960
21	South Korea	1,371 mm	1960
22	The Bahamas	1,360 mm	1960
23	Paraguay	1,333 mm	1960
24	Australia	1,304 mm	1960
25	United States	1,201 mm	1960
26	Tanzania	1,148 mm	1960
=27	Argentina	1,147 mm	1960
=27	Nicaragua	1,147 mm	1960
29	New Zealand	1,120 mm	1960
30	Uruguay	1,102 mm	1960
31	Kenya	1,063 mm	1960
32	Rwanda	1,028 mm	1960
33	Ecuador	1,026 mm	1960
34	North Korea	1,001 mm	1960
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	981.33 mm	1960
35	Italy	944 mm	1960
36	Germany	933 mm	1960
37	Malawi	922 mm	1960
38	Venezuela	916 mm	1960
=39	Togo	878 mm	1960
=39	Mali	878 mm	1960
41	Luxembourg	875 mm	1960
42	Honduras	873 mm	1960
43	Mexico	848 mm	1960
44	Lebanon	825 mm	1960
45	Iceland	801 mm	1960
46	Norway	763 mm	1960
47	Netherlands	760 mm	1960
48	United Kingdom	754 mm	1960
49	Portugal	753 mm	1960
50	Ireland	731 mm	1960
	Eurozone average (profile)	697.25 mm	1960
51	Turkey	697 mm	1960
52	Russia	691 mm	1960
=53	Algeria	686 mm	1960
=53	Poland	686 mm	1960
55	Lithuania	683 mm	1960
	European Union average (profile)	674.04 mm	1960
56	Dominica	654 mm	1960
57	Finland	651 mm	1960
58	France	650 mm	1960
59	Ukraine	649 mm	1960
60	Latvia	636 mm	1960
61	Austria	607 mm	1960
62	Romania	595 mm	1960
63	Tajikistan	569 mm	1960
64	Hungary	563 mm	1960
65	Malta	553 mm	1960
66	Moldova	547 mm	1960
67	Sweden	539 mm	1960
68	Czech Republic	527 mm	1960
69	Slovakia	523 mm	1960
70	South Africa	520 mm	1960
71	Republic of Macedonia	507 mm	1960
72	Georgia	498 mm	1960
	Former Soviet republics average (profile)	470.31 mm	1960
73	Tunisia	466 mm	1960
74	Spain	456 mm	1960
75	Kyrgyzstan	443 mm	1960
76	Morocco	426 mm	1960
77	Uzbekistan	420 mm	1960
78	Greece	371 mm	1960
79	Cyprus	320 mm	1960
80	Afghanistan	313 mm	1960
81	Armenia	277 mm	1960
82	Jordan	271 mm	1960
83	Kazakhstan	264 mm	1960
84	Iran	230 mm	1960
85	Turkmenistan	227 mm	1960
86	Pakistan	218 mm	1960
87	Mongolia	217 mm	1960
88	Azerbaijan	210 mm	1960
89	Djibouti	163 mm	1960
90	Syria	143 mm	1960
91	Kuwait	108 mm	1960
92	United Arab Emirates	89 mm	1960
93	Qatar	75 mm	1960
94	Bahrain	72 mm	1960
95	Peru	6 mm	1960

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