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Mawsynram is a village in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state in north-eastern India, 65 kilometres from Shillong. It is reportedly the wettest place on Earth, with an average annual rainfall of 11,872mm, but that claim is disputed by Lloró, Colombia, which reported an average yearly rainfall of 12,717mm between 1952 and 1989 and López de Micay, also in Colombia, which reported 12892mm per year between 1960 and 2012. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mawsynram received 26,000mm of rainfall in 1985.LocationMawsynram is located at 25° 18′ N, 91° 35′ E, at an altitude of about 1,400 metres, 16 km west of Cherrapunji, in the Khasi Hills in the state of Meghalaya . The name of the village contains Maw, a Khasi word meaning stone.Climate and rainfallUnder the Köppen climate classification, Mawsynram features a subtropical highland climate with an extraordinarily showery and long monsoonal season and a short dry season. Based on the data of a recent few decades, it appears to be the wettest place in the world, or the place with the highest average annual rainfall. Mawsynram receives nearly 10,000 millimeters of rain in an average year, and the vast majority of rain it falls during the monsoon months. A comparison of rainfalls for Cherrapunji and Mawsynram for some years is given in Table 1.