Biggest Cities in Deserts

With less than a minute to go I suddenly remembered that the Middle East exists...

That's, like, 70% of the quiz. :)

Cairo, Tehran, Riyadh, Baghdad, Alexandria, Amman, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait City, and Damascus = 10 Middle East cities.

10/14 = 0.714 or 71.4%.

I only got the S. America one because of a quiz a few days ago. It's still weird to me that it gets that little rain!

The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on earth.

It's close enough, I guess... the Atacama is northern Chile and does spread into Peru.

Ditto.

The fact that it is often cloudy even makes it weirder.

"These cities might be on a river or a sea"

Aren't all cities? :)

Saudi Arabia doesn't have rivers.

All cities might be. Not all cities are. The point is that to some it might seem counter-intuitive to think of a city next to water as in a desert. But if it doesn't get much rainfall a coastal area can still technically be a desert.

Phoenix is quite big even city proper, with a city proper population over 2 million I think.

I guess Casablanca is not in a desert? It certainly feels like a desert there. I have never been there, but I went on street view on Google Maps and it feels like a desert, but if you go on the satellite you can see it's not in a desert I guess.

what about las vegas, aleppo, jerusalem, kabul, sanaa, or mecca?

I thought Addis Ababa was in a desert

Guess I was wrong lol