Bamako

Bamako is the capital of and straddles the Niger River. With a population of around 2.5 million in 2020, it's the largest city in Mali and one of the largest in West Africa.
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  • …has about 971,000 residents

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Heart Cathedral and BCEAO Tower.
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Bamako

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Latitude
12.65° or 12° 39′ north
Longitude
-8° or 8° west
Open location code
7C4JM222+22
Geo­Names ID
2460594

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Bamako” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bamako”
  • Akan: “Bamako”
  • Albanian: “Bamako”
  • Amharic: “ባማኮ”
  • Arabic: “باماكو”
  • Aragonese: “Bamako”
  • Armenian: “Բամակո”
  • Asturian: “Bamaku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bamako”
  • Balinese: “Bamako”
  • Bambara: “Bamakɔ”
  • Bashkir: “Бамако”
  • Basque: “Bamako”
  • Belarusian: “Бамако”
  • Bengali: “বামাকো”
  • Bosnian: “Bamako”
  • Breton: “Bamako”
  • Bulgarian: “Бамако”
  • Catalan: “Bamako”
  • Cebuano: “Bamako Region”
  • Central Kurdish: “باماکۆ”
  • Chechen: “Бамако”
  • Chinese: “巴馬科”
  • Chuvash: “Бамако”
  • Croatian: “Bamako”
  • Czech: “Bamako”
  • Danish: “Bamako”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bamako”
  • Dutch: “Bamako”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باماكو”
  • Esperanto: “Bamako”
  • Estonian: “Bamako”
  • Extremaduran: “Bamako”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bamako”
  • Finnish: “Bamako”
  • French: “District de Bamako”
  • Fulah: “Bamako”
  • Galician: “Bamaco”
  • Georgian: “ბამაკო”
  • German: “Bamako”
  • Greek: “Μπαμακό”
  • Guarani: “Vámako”
  • Gujarati: “બામાકો”
  • Haitian: “Bamako”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bamako”
  • Hausa: “Bamako”
  • Hebrew: “במקו”
  • Hindi: “बमाको”
  • Hungarian: “Bamako”
  • Icelandic: “Bamakó”
  • Ido: “Bamako”
  • Iloko: “Bamako”
  • Inari Sami: “Bamako”
  • Indonesian: “Bamako”
  • Interlingua: “Bamako”
  • Interlingue: “Bamako”
  • Irish: “Bamako”
  • Italian: “Bamako”
  • Japanese: “バマコ”
  • Javanese: “Bamako”
  • Kabiyè: “Pamakoo”
  • Kabyle: “Bamaku”
  • Kannada: “ಬಮಾಕೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Бамако”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bamako”
  • Kirghiz: “Бамако”
  • Kongo: “Bamako”
  • Korean: “바마코”
  • Kotava: “Bamako”
  • Kurdish: “Bamako”
  • Latin: “Bamako”
  • Latvian: “Bamako”
  • Ligurian: “Bamako”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bamako”
  • Lithuanian: “Bamakas”
  • Livvi: “Bamako”
  • Lombard: “Bamako”
  • Low German: “Bamako”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bamako”
  • Macedonian: “Бамако”
  • Malagasy: “Bamako”
  • Malay: “Bamako”
  • Malayalam: “ബാമാകോ”
  • Maltese: “Bamako”
  • Marathi: “बमाको”
  • Mazanderani: “باماکو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bamako”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bamako”
  • Mingrelian: “ბამაკო”
  • Moksha: “Бамако”
  • Mongolian: “Бамако”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باماكو”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߫”
  • Navajo: “Táłkááʼtsʼin Bitooʼ”
  • Neapolitan: “Bamako”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bamako”
  • Northern Sami: “Bamako”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bamako”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bamako”
  • Novial: “Bamako”
  • Nyanja: “Bamako”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bamako”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܡܩܘ”
  • Oromo: “Bamako”
  • Ossetian: “Бамако”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਮਾਕੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Bamako”
  • Persian: “باماکو”
  • Piemontese: “Bamako”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bamaakoe”
  • Polish: “Bamako”
  • Portuguese: “Bamako”
  • Pushto: “باماکو”
  • Romanian: “Bamako”
  • Russian: “Бамако”
  • Rusyn: “Бамако”
  • Sardinian: “Bamako”
  • Scots: “Bamako”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bamako”
  • Serbian: “Бамако”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bamako”
  • Shona: “Bamako”
  • Sicilian: “Bamako”
  • Silesian: “Bamako”
  • Sinhala: “බමාකෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bamako”
  • Slovak: “Bamako”
  • Slovenian: “Bamako”
  • Somali: “Bamako”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باماکو”
  • Spanish: “Bamako”
  • Swahili: “Bamako”
  • Swati: “Bamako”
  • Swedish: “Bamako”
  • Tagalog: “Bamako”
  • Tajik: “Бамако”
  • Tamil: “பமாக்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Бамако”
  • Telugu: “బమాకో”
  • Thai: “บามาโก”
  • Tibetan: “བ་མ་ཀོ།”
  • Turkish: “Bamako”
  • Turkmen: “Bamako”
  • Udmurt: “Бамако”
  • Ukrainian: “Бамако”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bamako”
  • Urdu: “بماکو”
  • Uzbek: “Bamako”
  • Venetian: “Bamako”
  • Veps: “Bamako”
  • Vietnamese: “Bamako”
  • Volapük: “Bamako”
  • Võro: “Bamako”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bamako”
  • Welsh: “Bamako”
  • Western Frisian: “Bamako”
  • Western Mari: “Бамако”
  • Western Panjabi: “بماکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴马科”
  • Yiddish: “באַמאַקא”
  • Yoruba: “Bamako”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴馬科”
  • Zeeuws: “Bamako”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include National Museum of Mali and University Hospital of Point G.

Mali: Highlights

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