Markala
Markala is a commune in Mali's Ségou Region on the Niger River 35 km down stream from the town of Ségou. The commune contains 30 villages in an area of 318 square kilometers and in 2009 had a population of 45,961.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rgaudin, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diamarabougou.
Diamarabougou
Suburb
Diamarabougou is a village and seat of the commune of Markala in the Ségou Cercle in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. The village is on the right bank of the Niger River at the Markala dam which also serves as a road bridge across the river.
Markala
- Type: Town with 53,700 residents
- Description: commune of Mali
- Categories: commune of Mali, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Ségou Cercle, Segou, Mali, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
13.6859° or 13° 41′ 9″ northLongitude
-6.0686° or 6° 4′ 7″ westPopulation
53,700Elevation
293 metres (961 feet)Open location code
7C5MMWPJ+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 277944125OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2453662Wikidata ID
Q976115
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Markala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماركالا”
- Bambara: “Marakala”
- Bulgarian: “Маркала”
- Catalan: “Markala”
- Cebuano: “Markala”
- Chinese: “Markala”
- Chinese: “馬爾卡拉”
- Czech: “Markala”
- Dutch: “Markala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماركالا”
- Esperanto: “Markala”
- Finnish: “Markala”
- French: “Markala”
- Greek: “Μαρκαλά”
- Hungarian: “Markala”
- Irish: “Markala”
- Italian: “Markala”
- Japanese: “マルカラ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Markala”
- N'Ko: “ߡߙߊ߬ߞߊ߬ߟߊ߫”
- Polish: “Markala”
- Portuguese: “Markala”
- Russian: “Маркала”
- Spanish: “Markala”
- Swedish: “Markala”
- Uzbek: “Markala”
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