<P> The former highest official temperature on Earth (held for 90 years by' Aziziya, Libya) was reassessed in July 2012 by the WMO which published a report that invalidated the record . </P> <P> There have been other unconfirmed reports of high temperatures, with readings as high as 66.8 ° C (152.2 ° F) in the Flaming Mountains of China in 2008 . However, these temperatures have never been confirmed, and are currently considered to have been recorder's errors, thus not being recognised as world records . </P> <P> Christopher C. Burt, the weather historian writing for Weather Underground who shepherded the Libya reading's 2012 disqualification, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 ° C (4 or 5 ° F) too high . Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 ° C (129.2 ° F) recorded on 30 June 2013 . 53.9 ° C (129.0 ° F) was recorded another four times: 20 July 1960, 18 July 1998, 20 July 2005, and 7 July 2007 . On 21 July 2016, Mitribah in Kuwait also recorded a maximum temperature of 54.0 ° C (129.2 ° F), tying Death Valley's highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth, while Basra in Iraq reached 53.9 ° C (129.0 ° F) that day . On 29 June 2017, the air at the airport of Ahvaz in Iran reached 54.0 ° C (129.2 ° F) as well . In a second part to his analysis, he gave a list of 11 other occasions in which temperatures of 52.8 ° C (127.0 ° F) or more were reliably measured as well as the highest reliably measured temperatures on each continent . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Country / Region </Th> <Th> Temperature </Th> <Th> Town / Location </Th> <Th> Date </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Algeria </Td> <Td> 51.3 ° C (124.3 ° F) </Td> <Td> El Bayadh, El Bayadh Province / Ouargla, Ouargla Province </Td> <Td> 2 September 1979 / 5 July 2018 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Botswana </Td> <Td> 44.0 ° C (111.2 ° F) </Td> <Td> Maun </Td> <Td> 7 January 2016 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Burkina Faso </Td> <Td> 47.2 ° C (117.0 ° F) </Td> <Td> Dori </Td> <Td> 1984 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Chad </Td> <Td> 47.6 ° C (117.7 ° F) </Td> <Td> Faya - Largeau </Td> <Td> 22 June 2010 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Comoros </Td> <Td> 36.0 ° C (96.8 ° F) </Td> <Td> Hahaya International Airport </Td> <Td> 15 November 2017 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ghana </Td> <Td> 43.8 ° C (110.8 ° F) </Td> <Td> Navrongo </Td> <Td> 26 March 2017 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Guinea </Td> <Td> 45.0 ° C (113.0 ° F) </Td> <Td> Koundara, Boké Region </Td> <Td> 29 March 2017 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Niger </Td> <Td> 49.5 ° C (121.1 ° F) </Td> <Td> Diffa </Td> <Td> 7 September 1978 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Nigeria </Td> <Td> 46.4 ° C (115.5 ° F) </Td> <Td> Yola </Td> <Td> 3 April 2010 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> South Africa </Td> <Td> 50.0 ° C (122.0 ° F) </Td> <Td> Dunbrody, Eastern Cape </Td> <Td> 3 November 1918 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sudan </Td> <Td> 49.7 ° C (121.5 ° F) </Td> <Td> Dongola </Td> <Td> 25 June 2010 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Swaziland </Td> <Td> 47.4 ° C (117.3 ° F) </Td> <Td> Lavumisa </Td> <Td>? </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Tunisia </Td> <Td> 55 ° C (131 ° F) </Td> <Td> Kebili </Td> <Td> 7 July 1931 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Western Sahara </Td> <Td> 50.7 ° C (123.3 ° F) </Td> <Td> Semara </Td> <Td> 13 July 1961 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Zambia </Td> <Td> 42.4 ° C (108.3 ° F) </Td> <Td> Mfuwe, Eastern Province </Td> <Td> 13 October 2010 </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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