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Milk River

The 166th longest river in the world

1,173 km

The Milk River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 729 miles (1,173 km) long, in the U.S. state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta. Rising in the Rocky Mountains, the river drains a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of 23,800 square miles (62,000 km2), ending just east of Fort Peck, Montana.

Flows through: Canada, United States.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

Other major rivers

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  2. Nile6,650 km
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