 
 <translate> Answer the following Q with stream of consciousness. Context: The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. Flowing entirely in the United States (although its drainage basin reaches into Canada), it rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for 2,320 miles (3,730 km) to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts of 31 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The Mississippi ranks as the fourth-longest and fifteenth-largest river in the world by discharge. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Question: where does the mississippi river start and stop? <hau> Amsa wannan tambaya ta Q da rafi na sani. Bayanin: Kogin Mississippi shine babban kogin na biyu mafi girma na magudanar ruwa a nahiyar Arewacin Amurka, na biyu kawai ga tsarin magudanar ruwa na Hudson Bay. Yana gudana gabaɗaya a cikin Amurka (duk da cewa tafkin ruwanta ya kai Kanada), yana tashi a arewacin Minnesota kuma yana tafiya a hankali zuwa kudu don mil 2,320 (kilomita 3,730) zuwa Mississippi River Delta a Tekun Mexico. Tare da rassa da yawa, rafin ruwan Mississippi ya kwashe duka ko kuma wasu ɓangarori na jihohi 31 na Amirka da larduna 2 na Kanada tsakanin Dutsen Rocky da Appalachian. Mississippi ya kasance na huɗu mafi tsawo kuma na goma sha biyar mafi girma a kogin duniya ta hanyar fitarwa. Kogin ko dai yana kan iyaka ko ya wuce jihohin Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, da Louisiana.  Tambaya: a ina ne kogin Mississippi ya fara kuma ya tsaya? 