| Front | Mississippi |ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi| |
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| Back | 1 a major river of North America, which rises in Minnesota near the Canadian border and flows south to a delta on the Gulf of Mexico. With its chief tributary, the Missouri, it is 5,970 km (3,710 miles) long. 2 a state of the southern US, on the Gulf of Mexico, bounded to the west by the lower Mississippi River pop. 2,938,618 (est. 2008) capital, Jackson. A French colony in the first half of the 18th century, it was ceded to Britain in 1763 and to the US in 1783, becoming the 20th state in 1817. |
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