Cherrapunji, India receives 498 inches per year.
Mousinram, India receives 11420 mm per year.
Cropp River, Hokitika, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, over 365 days: 18,442mm
The one place that receives the greatest rainfall each year is Bergen, Norway. They receive 53.9 inches of rain in a year!
Mt. Rainier, Washington. or is it....... Sahara Desert
Mawsynram village in Meghalaya, India, holds the record for the highest average annual rainfall in the world. This region receives around 467 inches (11,871 millimeters) of rainfall each year, primarily due to its proximity to the Bay of Bengal and the orographic effect of the nearby mountains.
Bahrain receives the least amount of rainfall annually with 77 mm of rain.
chirafunji in India
It can be as close as it wants. Antarctica, the biggest desert in the world, is surrounded by water. Whether a place is a desert or not depends on the amount of rainfall every year.
The rainfall in regions varies from place to place. If it is too hot and dry, the rainfall would be scanty (20 to50cm). if a little humid then a good amount of rainfall would be expected (100 to 200cm). If too humid then a large amount of rainfall (200 to 400mm). And if a rain forest then it would be a large amount (above 400mm).
It is because it is the world highest recorded rainfall place in the world
As of now, the inhabited place with the least rainfall in the world is Aswan, Egypt. Aswan experiences extremely low levels of rainfall, with an average annual precipitation of less than 0.1 inches.
your imagination
The greatest rainfall recorded in a single day is 182.5 centimeters (71.9 inches) in Foc-Foc, La Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, on January 8, 1966.
In terms of rainfall, the wettest place in the world is Lloró, Columbia with an average annual rainfall of 523.6 inches (or 13,299.4 mm). In second place is Mawsynram, India, with an average rainfall of 467 in. (or 11,872 mm). Finally, the third wettest place in the world is Mt. Waialeale in Kauai, Hawaii in the United States, with an average rainfall of 460 inches per year (or 11,684 mm).