Rankings · geography

Countries by annual precipitation

Total rain and snow in the year, averaged over the country (Copernicus ERA5). 193 countries ranked for 2025 (mm).

		Value
1	Papua New Guinea	4,152 mm	+17.4%	▲ 1
2	Solomon Islands	4,109 mm	+0.9%	▼ 1
3	Philippines	3,683 mm	+57.8%	▲ 13
4	Indonesia	3,662 mm	+30.7%	▲ 6
5	Panama	3,522 mm	+19.2%	▲ 1
6	Brunei	3,512 mm	+21.0%	▲ 2
7	Colombia	3,460 mm	+8.1%	▼ 3
8	Costa Rica	3,314 mm	+13.3%	▼ 1
9	Samoa	3,284 mm	+15.7%	=
10	Ecuador	3,272 mm	-3.8%	▼ 7
11	Malaysia	3,150 mm	+17.2%	=
12	American Samoa	2,994 mm	+22.0%	▲ 3
13	Sierra Leone	2,951 mm	+29.2%	▲ 5
14	Bhutan	2,741 mm	-12.8%	▼ 9
15	Equatorial Guinea	2,682 mm	+1.9%	▼ 3
16	Fiji	2,520 mm	+40.6%	▲ 16
17	Suriname	2,494 mm	+46.9%	▲ 20
18	Myanmar	2,469 mm	+6.3%	▼ 1
19	Liberia	2,398 mm	+13.9%	▲ 3
20	Vietnam	2,377 mm	+31.2%	▲ 10
21	Peru	2,364 mm	+4.5%	▼ 2
22	Vanuatu	2,298 mm	+6.8%	▼ 1
23	Guyana	2,267 mm	+25.3%	▲ 8
24	Venezuela	2,174 mm	+12.6%	▼ 1
25	Nepal	2,131 mm	+15.7%	▲ 2
26	Laos	2,108 mm	+12.4%	▼ 1
27	Bangladesh	2,081 mm	-15.5%	▼ 13
28	Sri Lanka	2,057 mm	-6.5%	▼ 8
29	Timor-Leste	1,984 mm	+52.5%	▲ 35
30	Nicaragua	1,915 mm	+17.1%	▲ 11
31	Cambodia	1,898 mm	+28.3%	▲ 23
32	Gabon	1,888 mm	+2.8%	▼ 4
33	Guinea	1,861 mm	+9.6%	▲ 3
34	New Caledonia	1,856 mm	+41.8%	▲ 29
35	French Polynesia	1,828 mm	+46.5%	▲ 34
36	Hong Kong S.A.R.	1,808 mm	+13.0%	▲ 9
37	Thailand	1,757 mm	+18.6%	▲ 16
38	Burundi	1,732 mm	-8.2%	▼ 14
39	Guatemala	1,721 mm	-1.2%	▼ 5
40	South Georgia and the Islands	1,677 mm	-2.3%	▼ 5
41	Honduras	1,668 mm	+8.2%	▲ 6
42	Japan	1,642 mm	-12.0%	▼ 16
43	New Zealand	1,631 mm	+13.4%	▲ 12
44	Guinea-Bissau	1,621 mm	+4.3%	▲ 2
45	Belize	1,620 mm	-2.2%	▼ 5
46	Cameroon	1,611 mm	-1.4%	▼ 4
47	Brazil	1,609 mm	+0.0%	▼ 3
48	Malawi	1,549 mm	+23.2%	▲ 19
49	Switzerland	1,537 mm	+7.5%	▲ 7
50	Montenegro	1,525 mm	+21.6%	▲ 18
51	Cook Islands	1,504 mm	-10.0%	▼ 12
52	Bolivia	1,482 mm	-2.8%	▼ 1
53	Republic of the Congo	1,481 mm	+8.8%	▲ 6
54	Madagascar	1,465 mm	-18.1%	▼ 21
55	Rwanda	1,416 mm	-7.8%	▼ 6
56	Chile	1,415 mm	-7.4%	▼ 6
57	Iceland	1,409 mm	-12.5%	▼ 14
58	India	1,404 mm	+21.0%	▲ 18
59	Trinidad and Tobago	1,391 mm	+29.0%	▲ 24
60	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,383 mm	-7.7%	▼ 8
61	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	1,377 mm	+2.9%	▲ 1
62	El Salvador	1,358 mm	+5.6%	▲ 3
63	Lesotho	1,329 mm	+77.0%	▲ 61
64	Uganda	1,308 mm	-14.9%	▼ 16
65	Norway	1,296 mm	-8.5%	▼ 8
66	Albania	1,289 mm	+8.8%	▲ 7
67	South Korea	1,270 mm	+30.9%	▲ 24
68	Slovenia	1,264 mm	+11.1%	▲ 10
69	Seychelles	1,243 mm	-32.0%	▼ 40
70	North Korea	1,237 mm	+28.7%	▲ 23
71	Paraguay	1,211 mm	-27.8%	▼ 33
72	Georgia	1,192 mm	-2.4%	▼ 1
73	Jamaica	1,149 mm	+46.4%	▲ 44
74	Isle of Man	1,144 mm	-3.3%	=
75	France	1,138 mm	+19.7%	▲ 20
76	Puerto Rico	1,133 mm	+35.0%	▲ 32
77	Ireland	1,124 mm	-12.1%	▼ 11
78	Zambia	1,120 mm	+8.8%	▲ 9
79	Mozambique	1,103 mm	+30.1%	▲ 28
80	Austria	1,079 mm	+0.2%	▲ 4
81	Angola	1,071 mm	-1.8%	▲ 1
82	Faroe Islands	1,056 mm	-21.4%	▼ 21
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,054 mm	-4.8%	▼ 3
84	Portugal	1,042 mm	+81.8%	▲ 65
85	Uruguay	1,040 mm	-15.8%	▼ 15
86	Ivory Coast	1,035 mm	-10.0%	▼ 9
87	Italy	1,028 mm	+7.6%	▲ 7
88	Dominican Republic	1,019 mm	+30.6%	▲ 31
89	Nigeria	1,017 mm	-1.4%	▼ 3
90	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,017 mm	+30.1%	▲ 28
91	Togo	1,013 mm	-14.6%	▼ 19
92	Eswatini	1,008 mm	+71.7%	▲ 54
93	Croatia	988 mm	+1.3%	▼ 3
94	São Tomé and Principe	974 mm	-17.6%	▼ 19
95	The Bahamas	967 mm	+14.0%	▲ 11
96	Central African Republic	967 mm	-11.7%	▼ 15
97	United Kingdom	963 mm	-15.3%	▼ 18
98	Andorra	957 mm	+7.8%	▲ 2
99	Mauritius	950 mm	-29.5%	▼ 39
100	Comoros	947 mm	-31.8%	▼ 42
101	Zimbabwe	940 mm	+73.4%	▲ 51
102	Benin	935 mm	-7.9%	▼ 14
103	United Republic of Tanzania	934 mm	-12.5%	▼ 18
104	Haiti	933 mm	+43.1%	▲ 34
105	United States Virgin Islands	911 mm	+46.0%	▲ 35
106	Antigua and Barbuda	892 mm	+27.8%	▲ 25
107	Anguilla	890 mm	+52.1%	▲ 40
108	Ghana	876 mm	-10.5%	▼ 19
109	Gambia	846 mm	+16.2%	▲ 19
110	Estonia	845 mm	+22.3%	▲ 22
111	Cuba	843 mm	-3.3%	▼ 8
112	Luxembourg	837 mm	+10.6%	▲ 11
113	China	833 mm	+2.8%	▼ 1
114	Latvia	833 mm	+22.0%	▲ 19
115	Ethiopia	829 mm	-11.6%	▼ 19
116	Sweden	810 mm	-8.6%	▼ 15
117	United States	810 mm	-6.8%	▼ 13
118	Mexico	809 mm	-9.2%	▼ 19
119	Kyrgyzstan	796 mm	-14.7%	▼ 22
120	North Macedonia	796 mm	+1.3%	▼ 4
121	Lithuania	782 mm	+17.9%	▲ 15
122	Slovakia	770 mm	+4.6%	▲ 4
123	Kosovo	766 mm	-0.8%	▼ 1
124	Belgium	761 mm	-8.3%	▼ 14
125	Greece	760 mm	-12.2%	▼ 20
126	Belarus	752 mm	+27.2%	▲ 18
127	Spain	742 mm	+37.4%	▲ 26
128	Germany	734 mm	-8.6%	▼ 13
129	Finland	730 mm	-12.3%	▼ 20
130	Denmark	723 mm	-24.9%	▼ 38
131	Netherlands	709 mm	-19.5%	▼ 29
132	Armenia	704 mm	-24.4%	▼ 34
133	Romania	691 mm	-5.5%	▼ 6
134	South Sudan	690 mm	-14.4%	▼ 20
135	Bulgaria	689 mm	-11.0%	▼ 15
136	Botswana	686 mm	+159.8%	▲ 31
137	Poland	684 mm	+13.1%	▲ 6
138	Falkland Islands	682 mm	+4.6%	▼ 1
139	Canada	670 mm	+0.0%	▼ 5
140	Czechia	669 mm	+0.3%	▼ 5
141	Republic of Serbia	662 mm	-7.9%	▼ 11
142	Argentina	657 mm	-19.6%	▼ 31
143	South Africa	652 mm	+78.1%	▲ 18
144	Kenya	613 mm	-20.6%	▼ 23
145	Russia	597 mm	+1.2%	=
146	Kiribati	593 mm	-76.3%	▼ 133
147	Senegal	578 mm	+6.6%	▲ 4
148	Cayman Islands	569 mm	-21.5%	▼ 19
149	Tajikistan	561 mm	-30.6%	▼ 36
150	Hungary	553 mm	-9.9%	▼ 8
151	Turkey	546 mm	-27.0%	▼ 26
152	Burkina Faso	542 mm	-16.5%	▼ 13
153	Ukraine	538 mm	-3.8%	▼ 3
154	Azerbaijan	508 mm	-18.3%	▼ 13
155	Greenland	482 mm	+16.1%	▲ 1
156	Moldova	459 mm	-4.0%	▼ 1
157	Australia	455 mm	+10.4%	=
158	Namibia	450 mm	+94.8%	▲ 16
159	Lebanon	422 mm	-27.0%	▼ 11
160	Pakistan	372 mm	-24.8%	▼ 6
161	Kazakhstan	309 mm	-16.0%	▼ 1
162	Eritrea	291 mm	+22.3%	▲ 10
163	Cyprus	288 mm	-25.4%	▼ 4
164	Morocco	282 mm	+9.3%	▲ 4
165	Afghanistan	266 mm	-33.0%	▼ 7
166	Palestine	257 mm	-27.0%	▼ 3
167	Mongolia	246 mm	-1.6%	▲ 4
168	Mali	241 mm	-5.5%	▲ 2
169	Iran	212 mm	-28.6%	▼ 5
170	Chad	208 mm	-7.6%	▲ 5
171	Tunisia	198 mm	+7.0%	▲ 7
172	Cabo Verde	175 mm	-35.4%	▼ 6
173	Uzbekistan	171 mm	-40.8%	▼ 8
174	Iraq	170 mm	-33.6%	▼ 5
175	Israel	154 mm	-34.2%	▼ 2
176	Somalia	152 mm	-58.2%	▼ 14
177	Syria	145 mm	-31.3%	▼ 1
178	Sudan	130 mm	-5.1%	▲ 2
179	Djibouti	124 mm	-20.5%	=
180	Turkmenistan	114 mm	-40.3%	▼ 3
181	Kuwait	107 mm	-12.3%	▲ 1
182	Yemen	106 mm	-17.8%	▼ 1
183	Jordan	74 mm	-30.8%	=
184	Niger	71 mm	-25.3%	=
185	Algeria	65 mm	-8.5%	▲ 2
186	Qatar	59 mm	-13.2%	▲ 2
187	Mauritania	56 mm	-32.5%	▼ 2
188	Saudi Arabia	51 mm	-16.4%	▲ 1
189	Bahrain	43 mm	-45.6%	▼ 3
190	Oman	27 mm	-3.6%	=
191	United Arab Emirates	19 mm	-5.0%	▲ 1
192	Libya	17 mm	-37.0%	▼ 1
193	Egypt	6 mm	-60.0%	=

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Rankings · geography

Countries by annual precipitation

Total rain and snow in the year, averaged over the country (Copernicus ERA5). 193 countries ranked for 2025 (mm).

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1Papua New Guinea4,152 mm

2Solomon Islands4,109 mm

3Philippines3,683 mm

		Value
1	Papua New Guinea	4,152 mm	+17.4%	▲ 1
2	Solomon Islands	4,109 mm	+0.9%	▼ 1
3	Philippines	3,683 mm	+57.8%	▲ 13
4	Indonesia	3,662 mm	+30.7%	▲ 6
5	Panama	3,522 mm	+19.2%	▲ 1
6	Brunei	3,512 mm	+21.0%	▲ 2
7	Colombia	3,460 mm	+8.1%	▼ 3
8	Costa Rica	3,314 mm	+13.3%	▼ 1
9	Samoa	3,284 mm	+15.7%	=
10	Ecuador	3,272 mm	-3.8%	▼ 7
11	Malaysia	3,150 mm	+17.2%	=
12	American Samoa	2,994 mm	+22.0%	▲ 3
13	Sierra Leone	2,951 mm	+29.2%	▲ 5
14	Bhutan	2,741 mm	-12.8%	▼ 9
15	Equatorial Guinea	2,682 mm	+1.9%	▼ 3
16	Fiji	2,520 mm	+40.6%	▲ 16
17	Suriname	2,494 mm	+46.9%	▲ 20
18	Myanmar	2,469 mm	+6.3%	▼ 1
19	Liberia	2,398 mm	+13.9%	▲ 3
20	Vietnam	2,377 mm	+31.2%	▲ 10
21	Peru	2,364 mm	+4.5%	▼ 2
22	Vanuatu	2,298 mm	+6.8%	▼ 1
23	Guyana	2,267 mm	+25.3%	▲ 8
24	Venezuela	2,174 mm	+12.6%	▼ 1
25	Nepal	2,131 mm	+15.7%	▲ 2
26	Laos	2,108 mm	+12.4%	▼ 1
27	Bangladesh	2,081 mm	-15.5%	▼ 13
28	Sri Lanka	2,057 mm	-6.5%	▼ 8
29	Timor-Leste	1,984 mm	+52.5%	▲ 35
30	Nicaragua	1,915 mm	+17.1%	▲ 11
31	Cambodia	1,898 mm	+28.3%	▲ 23
32	Gabon	1,888 mm	+2.8%	▼ 4
33	Guinea	1,861 mm	+9.6%	▲ 3
34	New Caledonia	1,856 mm	+41.8%	▲ 29
35	French Polynesia	1,828 mm	+46.5%	▲ 34
36	Hong Kong S.A.R.	1,808 mm	+13.0%	▲ 9
37	Thailand	1,757 mm	+18.6%	▲ 16
38	Burundi	1,732 mm	-8.2%	▼ 14
39	Guatemala	1,721 mm	-1.2%	▼ 5
40	South Georgia and the Islands	1,677 mm	-2.3%	▼ 5
41	Honduras	1,668 mm	+8.2%	▲ 6
42	Japan	1,642 mm	-12.0%	▼ 16
43	New Zealand	1,631 mm	+13.4%	▲ 12
44	Guinea-Bissau	1,621 mm	+4.3%	▲ 2
45	Belize	1,620 mm	-2.2%	▼ 5
46	Cameroon	1,611 mm	-1.4%	▼ 4
47	Brazil	1,609 mm	+0.0%	▼ 3
48	Malawi	1,549 mm	+23.2%	▲ 19
49	Switzerland	1,537 mm	+7.5%	▲ 7
50	Montenegro	1,525 mm	+21.6%	▲ 18
51	Cook Islands	1,504 mm	-10.0%	▼ 12
52	Bolivia	1,482 mm	-2.8%	▼ 1
53	Republic of the Congo	1,481 mm	+8.8%	▲ 6
54	Madagascar	1,465 mm	-18.1%	▼ 21
55	Rwanda	1,416 mm	-7.8%	▼ 6
56	Chile	1,415 mm	-7.4%	▼ 6
57	Iceland	1,409 mm	-12.5%	▼ 14
58	India	1,404 mm	+21.0%	▲ 18
59	Trinidad and Tobago	1,391 mm	+29.0%	▲ 24
60	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,383 mm	-7.7%	▼ 8
61	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	1,377 mm	+2.9%	▲ 1
62	El Salvador	1,358 mm	+5.6%	▲ 3
63	Lesotho	1,329 mm	+77.0%	▲ 61
64	Uganda	1,308 mm	-14.9%	▼ 16
65	Norway	1,296 mm	-8.5%	▼ 8
66	Albania	1,289 mm	+8.8%	▲ 7
67	South Korea	1,270 mm	+30.9%	▲ 24
68	Slovenia	1,264 mm	+11.1%	▲ 10
69	Seychelles	1,243 mm	-32.0%	▼ 40
70	North Korea	1,237 mm	+28.7%	▲ 23
71	Paraguay	1,211 mm	-27.8%	▼ 33
72	Georgia	1,192 mm	-2.4%	▼ 1
73	Jamaica	1,149 mm	+46.4%	▲ 44
74	Isle of Man	1,144 mm	-3.3%	=
75	France	1,138 mm	+19.7%	▲ 20
76	Puerto Rico	1,133 mm	+35.0%	▲ 32
77	Ireland	1,124 mm	-12.1%	▼ 11
78	Zambia	1,120 mm	+8.8%	▲ 9
79	Mozambique	1,103 mm	+30.1%	▲ 28
80	Austria	1,079 mm	+0.2%	▲ 4
81	Angola	1,071 mm	-1.8%	▲ 1
82	Faroe Islands	1,056 mm	-21.4%	▼ 21
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,054 mm	-4.8%	▼ 3
84	Portugal	1,042 mm	+81.8%	▲ 65
85	Uruguay	1,040 mm	-15.8%	▼ 15
86	Ivory Coast	1,035 mm	-10.0%	▼ 9
87	Italy	1,028 mm	+7.6%	▲ 7
88	Dominican Republic	1,019 mm	+30.6%	▲ 31
89	Nigeria	1,017 mm	-1.4%	▼ 3
90	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,017 mm	+30.1%	▲ 28
91	Togo	1,013 mm	-14.6%	▼ 19
92	Eswatini	1,008 mm	+71.7%	▲ 54
93	Croatia	988 mm	+1.3%	▼ 3
94	São Tomé and Principe	974 mm	-17.6%	▼ 19
95	The Bahamas	967 mm	+14.0%	▲ 11
96	Central African Republic	967 mm	-11.7%	▼ 15
97	United Kingdom	963 mm	-15.3%	▼ 18
98	Andorra	957 mm	+7.8%	▲ 2
99	Mauritius	950 mm	-29.5%	▼ 39
100	Comoros	947 mm	-31.8%	▼ 42
101	Zimbabwe	940 mm	+73.4%	▲ 51
102	Benin	935 mm	-7.9%	▼ 14
103	United Republic of Tanzania	934 mm	-12.5%	▼ 18
104	Haiti	933 mm	+43.1%	▲ 34
105	United States Virgin Islands	911 mm	+46.0%	▲ 35
106	Antigua and Barbuda	892 mm	+27.8%	▲ 25
107	Anguilla	890 mm	+52.1%	▲ 40
108	Ghana	876 mm	-10.5%	▼ 19
109	Gambia	846 mm	+16.2%	▲ 19
110	Estonia	845 mm	+22.3%	▲ 22
111	Cuba	843 mm	-3.3%	▼ 8
112	Luxembourg	837 mm	+10.6%	▲ 11
113	China	833 mm	+2.8%	▼ 1
114	Latvia	833 mm	+22.0%	▲ 19
115	Ethiopia	829 mm	-11.6%	▼ 19
116	Sweden	810 mm	-8.6%	▼ 15
117	United States	810 mm	-6.8%	▼ 13
118	Mexico	809 mm	-9.2%	▼ 19
119	Kyrgyzstan	796 mm	-14.7%	▼ 22
120	North Macedonia	796 mm	+1.3%	▼ 4
121	Lithuania	782 mm	+17.9%	▲ 15
122	Slovakia	770 mm	+4.6%	▲ 4
123	Kosovo	766 mm	-0.8%	▼ 1
124	Belgium	761 mm	-8.3%	▼ 14
125	Greece	760 mm	-12.2%	▼ 20
126	Belarus	752 mm	+27.2%	▲ 18
127	Spain	742 mm	+37.4%	▲ 26
128	Germany	734 mm	-8.6%	▼ 13
129	Finland	730 mm	-12.3%	▼ 20
130	Denmark	723 mm	-24.9%	▼ 38
131	Netherlands	709 mm	-19.5%	▼ 29
132	Armenia	704 mm	-24.4%	▼ 34
133	Romania	691 mm	-5.5%	▼ 6
134	South Sudan	690 mm	-14.4%	▼ 20
135	Bulgaria	689 mm	-11.0%	▼ 15
136	Botswana	686 mm	+159.8%	▲ 31
137	Poland	684 mm	+13.1%	▲ 6
138	Falkland Islands	682 mm	+4.6%	▼ 1
139	Canada	670 mm	+0.0%	▼ 5
140	Czechia	669 mm	+0.3%	▼ 5
141	Republic of Serbia	662 mm	-7.9%	▼ 11
142	Argentina	657 mm	-19.6%	▼ 31
143	South Africa	652 mm	+78.1%	▲ 18
144	Kenya	613 mm	-20.6%	▼ 23
145	Russia	597 mm	+1.2%	=
146	Kiribati	593 mm	-76.3%	▼ 133
147	Senegal	578 mm	+6.6%	▲ 4
148	Cayman Islands	569 mm	-21.5%	▼ 19
149	Tajikistan	561 mm	-30.6%	▼ 36
150	Hungary	553 mm	-9.9%	▼ 8
151	Turkey	546 mm	-27.0%	▼ 26
152	Burkina Faso	542 mm	-16.5%	▼ 13
153	Ukraine	538 mm	-3.8%	▼ 3
154	Azerbaijan	508 mm	-18.3%	▼ 13
155	Greenland	482 mm	+16.1%	▲ 1
156	Moldova	459 mm	-4.0%	▼ 1
157	Australia	455 mm	+10.4%	=
158	Namibia	450 mm	+94.8%	▲ 16
159	Lebanon	422 mm	-27.0%	▼ 11
160	Pakistan	372 mm	-24.8%	▼ 6
161	Kazakhstan	309 mm	-16.0%	▼ 1
162	Eritrea	291 mm	+22.3%	▲ 10
163	Cyprus	288 mm	-25.4%	▼ 4
164	Morocco	282 mm	+9.3%	▲ 4
165	Afghanistan	266 mm	-33.0%	▼ 7
166	Palestine	257 mm	-27.0%	▼ 3
167	Mongolia	246 mm	-1.6%	▲ 4
168	Mali	241 mm	-5.5%	▲ 2
169	Iran	212 mm	-28.6%	▼ 5
170	Chad	208 mm	-7.6%	▲ 5
171	Tunisia	198 mm	+7.0%	▲ 7
172	Cabo Verde	175 mm	-35.4%	▼ 6
173	Uzbekistan	171 mm	-40.8%	▼ 8
174	Iraq	170 mm	-33.6%	▼ 5
175	Israel	154 mm	-34.2%	▼ 2
176	Somalia	152 mm	-58.2%	▼ 14
177	Syria	145 mm	-31.3%	▼ 1
178	Sudan	130 mm	-5.1%	▲ 2
179	Djibouti	124 mm	-20.5%	=
180	Turkmenistan	114 mm	-40.3%	▼ 3
181	Kuwait	107 mm	-12.3%	▲ 1
182	Yemen	106 mm	-17.8%	▼ 1
183	Jordan	74 mm	-30.8%	=
184	Niger	71 mm	-25.3%	=
185	Algeria	65 mm	-8.5%	▲ 2
186	Qatar	59 mm	-13.2%	▲ 2
187	Mauritania	56 mm	-32.5%	▼ 2
188	Saudi Arabia	51 mm	-16.4%	▲ 1
189	Bahrain	43 mm	-45.6%	▼ 3
190	Oman	27 mm	-3.6%	=
191	United Arab Emirates	19 mm	-5.0%	▲ 1
192	Libya	17 mm	-37.0%	▼ 1
193	Egypt	6 mm	-60.0%	=

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