• Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    How do they determine the beginning of a river? Should it be the furthest point of something? Why isn’t the Missouri River the “Mississippi” and the remaining portion of the Mississippi north of that junction the Missouri instead?

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      4 hours ago

      In Europe you often have either 2 rivers forming a new one or the bigger one eats the smaller one

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      5 hours ago

      Historical exploration mostly. It’s very often referred to as the Mississippi-Missouri River in a general context