The Mississippi River Basin, also known as the Mississippi River System or the Mississippi-Missouri Basin, is the largest drainage basin in the United States, formed by the Mississippi River together with its connecting waterways. It drains about 41 percent of the country's total land area.
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The current form of the Mississippi River basin was largely shaped by the Laurentide Ice Sheet of the most recent Ice Age.
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