Oxford geographer Nick Middleton's book on people who live in extreme climates, Going to Extremes (ISBN 0-330-49384-1), chronicles his visit to the village, and describes how the inhabitants cope with such extreme precipitation.
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Mawsynram is located at 25° 18' N, 91° 35' E, at an altitude of about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft), 16 km west of Cherrapunji, in the Khasi Hills in the state of Meghalaya (India) .
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The name of the village contains Maw, a Khasi word meaning stone, and thus might refer to certain megaliths in the surrounding area.
The village of Debundscha is included among the five rainiest places in the world which includes Lloró, Mawsynram, Mount Waialeale and Cherrapunji, with each of them receiving over 10,000 millimeters (400 ins) of rain annually.