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Is 30,180 feet as long as The Mississippi River?

It's about one-four-hundredth as long as The Mississippi River
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The length of The Mississippi River is about 12,360,000 feet.
(from Lake Itasca, Minnesota through Pilottown, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana)
The total length of the Mississippi River is 12,360,000 feet. Prior to the development of soil erosion programs, the Mississippi River would carry approximately 400 million metric tons of sediment from its banks to the Gulf of Mexico every year.
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