It isn't the longest river in the world and it doesn't carry the highest volume of water.

However, its location makes it one of the most valuable rivers on Earth.

It's been the subject of songs, the location of military battles, and is one of the most important economic

transportation corridors on the planet.

Learn more about the Mississippi River and what makes it so different than any other river in the world

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. everything everywhere daily. I previously did an episode on the longest river in the world, The Nile.

Since then, I've set out doing episodes on many of the Great Rivers of the world.

Each major river has its own personality which is determined by its geography.

I considered which river to focus on next, and I thought about the Amazon of course, the Yang Sea, the Congo, the Danube, the Ganges, and the Indus.

All of these rivers will be subjects of future episodes, but I decided to focus on the Mississippi next simply because of how different it is from the others.

The Mississippi is the fourth longest river in the world when measured from its traditional

source in Lake Itasca, Minnesota behind the Amazon, Nile, and Yanksi. In terms of total water discharge, it's only the 13th largest

river in the world. So what makes the Mississippi so different? It has to do with the entire

Mississippi drainage basin. The Mississippi drainage

basin is the fourth largest in the world behind the Amazon Nile and Congo, is an

enormous amount of water, but most of the basin is rainforest with a very low

population density. The Nile flows

through enormous tracks of desert. There are literally no tributaries all

throughout Egypt and the rapids near the Egyptian Sudanese border make

navigation beyond these

rapids impossible. Likewise the Congo Basin consists mostly of rain

forests like the Amazon and like the Nile there are rapids that make river

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