7. People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria – 89 mm/year
The country actually gets decent amounts of rainfall along the coast, up to 670 mm annually, and in northeastern parts of Algeria, it gets up to 1,000 mm in years with rich precipitation. The tenth largest country in the world and the largest country in Africa gets low average annual precipitation due to four-fifths of it being a desert. In the desert region in the summer temperatures get up to 110 °F (43.3 °C).
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