Countries with the Most Precipitation

I don't get it.

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

I'm not sure a LOL works here or not.

The wettest city of over 100,000 people in the world is Quibdó, Colombia. The Pacific side of the Andes is insanely wet... in the north. Then farther south its the eastern side, where you'll find the Amazon. You'll find the driest non-polar desert on Earth on the Pacific side of the Andes in the Atacama. But farther south still and the Patagonian Desert is on the eastern, Atlantic side of the Andes and far south Chile gets huge volumes of rain and snow. South America is weird.

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.

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.

Whenever asking for an outlier, it's easy for it to be something small. Very hard for big countries to so consistently exhibit a given trait, whereas for a small country it's much easier. There are also many more small countries of course. It's impressive to be that Indonesia, Colombia and PNG are on here at all.

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. :)

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

With one country left to go, I was going to write Sierra Leone, but with only 3 secs left I thought, nah, takes too long, I won't make it. So I wrote Gabon instead. Should have gone with my gut feeling after all.

It might rain very often but never in monsoon amounts.

The Amazon rainforest has a reputation for being all jungly, but there's actually almost no rain and no plants or animals there at all.

kind of a big country though

I've spent a lot of time in SE Asia during monsoon season and always felt like it was overblown by Westerners who hadn't seen it. It does rain a lot sometimes, but, it's not like Forrest Gump where he said it started raining and didn't stop for 3 or 4 months... if there isn't an ongoing typhoon, then, it's more like it will rain really hard for 10-20 minutes, then clear up and be nice for another hour or so, then rain hard again for another 15-45 minutes, then be clear for a few hours, repeat. Once a week there'll be a really rainy day and you spend it at the mall or spa or whatever. It gets pretty hot and humid sometimes so the rain is actually nice as it cools everything down and gives you an excuse to get out of the sun before going out again. But the reputation for intolerable heat and non-stop rain keeps most of the tourists away which is great... everything is less crowded and much cheaper... so I usually prefer being there during the rainy season overall.

Me too - I would have thought somewhere like DRC with rainforest but Sierra Leone is N Africa which has lots of very dry countries like Egypt, Morocco etc