Mississippi
About Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the southwest, and Arkansas to the northwest. Mississippi's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River, or its historical course. Mississippi is the 32nd largest by area and 35th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states and has the lowest per-capita income. Jackson is both the state's capital and largest city. Greater Jackson is the state's most populous metropolitan area, with a population of 591,978 in 2020. Other major cities include Gulfport, Southaven, Hattiesburg, Biloxi, Olive Branch, Tupelo, Meridian, and Greenville.
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There was a giant physical scale model of the river called the Mississippi River Basin Model, built to figure out how it worked.
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The Mississippi River Basin Model covered about 210 acres, the size of 120 football pitches, with streams eight miles long in total.
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In the model, one gallon of water represented 1.5 million gallons in the real world, and five minutes of flow simulated an entire day of the Mississippi.
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The model was so huge the only way to see all of it was from an observation point four storeys tall.
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The model was built near Clinton, Mississippi, because the river kept flooding, and the 1927 Mississippi flood was the worst flood in US history.
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The Mississippi is the longest river in the US, and the Missouri is one of its tributaries.
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Jeff Buckley drowned in the Mississippi.
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Coordinates: 33.0000, -90.0000