River
Mississippi
The Mississippi has been used to define many US state lines — but the channel keeps moving, so Archer and Bell islands are still officially Arkansas despite sitting east of the river.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Where a meander is cut off it leaves an oxbow lake. Lake Chicot, at 5,300 acres, is reckoned the largest in the United States.
Source: science.nasa.gov
Find Mississippi on the mapWhere it is
On the Atlas Quest map, the Mississippi label sits at 37.3° N, 91.0° W, in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.
Nearby places
The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:
- Yellowstone Lake — about 1,800 km north-west
- Great Salt Lake — about 1,900 km west
- Death Valley — about 2,300 km west
- Cascade Range — about 2,700 km north-west
Play with it
- Today’s daily geography challenge — one shared round, playable offline.
- Guess the country by its shape — six guesses, with distance and direction after each.
- Start with easy questions — familiar countries, hints and no time limit.