Bla
Bla is a rural commune, town and capital of the Cercle of Bla in Mali's Ségou Region, located 85 kilometers south of Ségou along Mali's main highway. Bla serves as a central location for NGO activity in the region and is a crossroads for transportation going northeast to Mopti and Gao, as well as south to Sikasso, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: commune and town in Ségou Region, Mali
- Also known as: “Bla, Mali”
Bla
- Categories: commune of Mali and locality
- Location: Bla Cercle, Segou, Mali, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
12.94936° or 12° 56′ 58″ northLongitude
-5.76206° or 5° 45′ 43″ westPopulation
15,000Elevation
290 metres (951 feet)United Nations Location Code
ML BLAOpen location code
7C4PW6XQ+P5OpenStreetMap ID
node 2130931872OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Bla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلا”
- Bambara: “Bila”
- Bulgarian: “Бла”
- Cebuano: “Bla (sirkito)”
- Cebuano: “Bla”
- Chinese: “Bla”
- Chinese: “布拉”
- Danish: “Bla”
- Dutch: “Bla”
- Esperanto: “Bla”
- Estonian: “Bla”
- Finnish: “Bla”
- French: “Bla”
- German: “Bla”
- Greek: “Μπλα”
- Italian: “Bla”
- Japanese: “ブラ”
- Low German: “Bla”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bla”
- Persian: “بلا، مالی”
- Persian: “بلا”
- Spanish: “Bla”
- Swahili: “Bla, Mali”
- Swedish: “Bla (krets)”
- Swedish: “Bla”
- Uzbek: “Bla”
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