Photos of Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is a famous river in the United States and one of the largest rivers in the world. Together with the Amazon River in South America, the Nile River in Africa and the Yangtze River in China, it is called the four longest rivers in the world. If the upper Mississippi River originating from Itasca Lake in the northern United States is the source of the river, the total length is 3767km. The Mississippi River system mainly includes the main stream, the Upper Mississippi River, the eastern tributary the Ohio River, the western tributary the Missouri River, the Arkansas River, the White River, and the Red River.