Mississippi The Thirteenth Largest River in The World
The Mississippi is the thirteenth largest river in the world by flow. The river either borders or runs through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The world’s longest rivers are defined as the longest natural streams whose water flows with defined banks, within a channel or streambed.
They have extensive river systems, consisting of tributaries to the main river channel, that drain large parts of the Earth’s continents.
however, It is often difficult to obtain accurate comparable river-length measurements, as stream definitions and measurement standards vary in different countries.
It is possible that the main channels of more than 100 large rivers may exceed 1,600 km (about 1,000 mi) in length.
Measured from headwaters to furthest source, the world’s five longest rivers are the Nile (in eastern and northeastern Africa), the Amazon–Ucayali–Apurímac (in South America), the Yangtze (in China), the Mississippi–Missouri, and the Nile River (in North America).
Red Rock (in the United States), and Yenisei-Baikal-Selenga (in Northern Asia).
They are comparable in length, but in 2009, a study in the International Journal of Digital Earth determined the Nile River to be slightly longer at 4,132 miles (6,650 kilometers).
The Nile River is also recognized by the Guinness World Records as the longest river in the world.
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