Colombia is the wettest country in the world, averaging about 3,240 mm of rain a year in World Bank data, ahead of São Tomé and Príncipe and Papua New Guinea. Here is the full top 10, the wettest places on Earth, and why these countries get so much rain.
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The hottest countries in the world are led by the Sahel and a handful of Gulf and tropical island nations. Here’s how the rankings work, which countries appear most often near the top, and why average annual temperature tells a different story from one-off heat records.