A map shared on X, TikTok, Facebook and Threads, among other platforms, in August 2024 claimed to show ... Mississippi-Missouri River combination (3,710 miles) is the fourth-longest in the world ...

An 1829 comparative chart of the principal rivers and mountains of the world, published in a French atlas. The Mississippi River is second from the left. Photograph from David Rumsey Map ...

For example, on his map of the United States, the pink spider-webbing across nearly half the country represents the massive Jefferson-Mississippi-Missouri River ... show the real variation in the ...