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A landlocked country in the , Mali remains one of the poorest countries in the world, but it has wonderful musicians and some incredible sights, including four UNESCO World Heritage sites and the historic city of .
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Top destinations include Bamako and Timbuktu.

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is the capital of Mali 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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is an ancient city in Mali, situated 20 kilometres north of the . It is the capital of the , one of the eight administrative regions of Mali, having a population of 32,460 in the 2018 census.

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is a city in Mali and the capital of the . The city is located on the River Niger, 320 km east-southeast of on the left bank at the junction with the Tilemsi valley.

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is a region in Mali, named after the second-largest city within the region, . It is also site to the country's capital of Bamako.

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is the fifth administrative region of Mali, covering 79,017 km2. Its capital is the city of . During the 2012 Northern Mali conflict, the frontier between Southern Mali which is controlled by the central government and the rebel-held North ran through Region.

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Tombouctou Region or Region is one of the administrative regions of Mali. For administrative purposes, the region is subdivided into five cercles.

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Region the eighth administrative region of Mali, covering 151,450 square kilometres or 58,480 square miles. This area was formerly part of , but was created as a separate region in 1991.

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is a region in Mali named after the largest city in the region.

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Ségou Region is an administrative region in Mali, situated in the centre of the country with an area of 64,821 km2, around 5% of Mali. The region is bordered by on the south, and on the east, to the southeast and the to the west.

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Region is the southernmost region of Mali. The region's capital city, , is the country's second-largest city. Major ethnic groups include the Senoufo, known for masks and reverence for animals, the Samago, known for being Mali's best farmers, and the main ethnic group in Mali, the Bambara people.

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Region is one of ten first level national subdivisions in Mali called Regions. It is the first administrative area of Mali and covers an area of 120,760 square kilometres or 46,630 square miles.

Mali

Latitude of center
16.47° or 16° 28′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-3.65° or 3° 39′ west
Population
14,500,000
Area
1,240,000 km² (478,767 miles²)
Elevation
297 metres (974 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (XOF)
Phone code
.ml
Internet domain
223
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2453866
Wiki­data ID
Q912
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Mali” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Мали”
  • Abkhazian: “Мали”
  • Achinese: “Mali”
  • Adyghe: “Мали”
  • Afrikaans: “Mali”
  • Akan: “Mali”
  • Albanian: “Mali”
  • Amharic: “ማሊ”
  • Amis: “Mali”
  • Angika: “माली”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية مالي”
  • Arabic: “مالي”
  • Aragonese: “Mali”
  • Armenian: “Մալի”
  • Arpitan: “Mali”
  • Assamese: “মালি”
  • Asturian: “Malí”
  • Atayal: “Mali”
  • Avaric: “Мали”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mali”
  • Balinese: “Mali”
  • Bambara: “Mali”
  • Banjar: “Mali”
  • Bashkir: “Мали”
  • Basque: “Mali”
  • Bavarian: “Mali”
  • Belarusian: “Малі”
  • Bengali: “মালি”
  • Betawi: “Mali”
  • Bhojpuri: “माली देस”
  • Bishnupriya: “মালি”
  • Bislama: “Mali”
  • Bosnian: “Mali”
  • Breton: “Mali”
  • Bulgarian: “Мали”
  • Burmese: “မာလီ”
  • Burmese: “မာလီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Mali”
  • Cebuano: “Mali”
  • Central Bikol: “Mali”
  • Central Kanuri: “Mali”
  • Central Kurdish: “مالی”
  • Chavacano: “Malí”
  • Chechen: “Мали”
  • Chinese: “Mali”
  • Chinese: “馬利”
  • Chinese: “馬利共和國”
  • Chinese: “馬里”
  • Chinese: “馬里共和國”
  • Chinese: “马里 / 馬利”
  • Chinese: “马里”
  • Chinese: “马里共和国”
  • Chuvash: “Мали”
  • Cornish: “Mali”
  • Corsican: “Mali”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Mali”
  • Croatian: “Mali”
  • Czech: “Mali”
  • Dagbani: “Mali”
  • Danish: “Mali”
  • Dhivehi: “މާލީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mali”
  • Dotyali: “माली”
  • Dutch: “Mali”
  • Dutch: “ML”
  • Dutch: “MLI”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Mali”
  • Dzongkha: “མཱ་ལི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мали”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مالى”
  • Esperanto: “Malio”
  • Estonian: “Mali Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Mali”
  • Ewe: “Mali nutome”
  • Ewe: “Mali”
  • Extremaduran: “Mali”
  • Farefare: “Mali”
  • Faroese: “Mali”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mali”
  • Finnish: “Mali”
  • Finnish: “Malin kuningaskunta”
  • Finnish: “Malin tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Malito”
  • Fon: “Malitò”
  • French: “Mali”
  • French: “ML”
  • French: “MLI”
  • French: “République du Mali”
  • Fulah: “Maali”
  • Gagauz: “Mali”
  • Galician: “Malí”
  • Ganda: “Mali”
  • Georgian: “მალი”
  • German: “Mali”
  • German: “Republik Mali”
  • German: “Republique du Mali”
  • German: “République du Mali”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mali”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Mali”
  • Gilaki: “مالي”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Μαλί”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Μάλι”
  • Greek: “Μάλι”
  • Guarani: “Mali”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Mali”
  • Gujarati: “માલી”
  • Haitian: “Mali”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mali”
  • Hausa: “Mali”
  • Hebrew: “מאלי”
  • Hindi: “माली”
  • Hungarian: “Francia-Szudán”
  • Hungarian: “Mali Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Mali”
  • Icelandic: “Malí”
  • Ido: “Mali”
  • Igbo: “Mali”
  • Iloko: “Mali”
  • Inari Sami: “Mali täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Mali”
  • Indonesian: “Mali”
  • Interlingua: “Mali”
  • Interlingue: “Mali”
  • Irish: “Mailí”
  • Italian: “Mali”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Mali”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Mali”
  • Japanese: “マリ”
  • Japanese: “マリ共和国”
  • Japanese: “馬里”
  • Javanese: “Mali”
  • Kabiyè: “Maalii”
  • Kabyle: “Mali”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Mali”
  • Kalaallisut: “Mali”
  • Kalmyk: “Малудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಲಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mali”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Мали”
  • Kashmiri: “Mālī”
  • Kashmiri: “مالی”
  • Kazakh: “Мали”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ាលី”
  • Kikuyu: “Mali”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Mali”
  • Kirghiz: “Мали”
  • Kölsch: “Mahli”
  • Komering: “Mali”
  • Kongo: “Mali”
  • Korean: “말리”
  • Kotava: “Malia”
  • Kurdish: “Malî”
  • Ladin: “Mali”
  • Ladino: “Mali”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດມາລີ”
  • Lao: “ມາລີ”
  • Latin: “Malia”
  • Latin: “Malium”
  • Latvian: “Mali”
  • Lezghian: “Мали”
  • Ligurian: “Mali”
  • Limburgan: “Mali”
  • Lingala: “Mali”
  • Lingala: “Malí”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mali”
  • Literary Chinese: “馬里”
  • Lithuanian: “Malis”
  • Livvi: “Mali”
  • Lojban: “lo gugdemulu”
  • Lombard: “Mali”
  • Low German: “Mali”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Mali”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mali”
  • Lule Sami: “Málij”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mali”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Mali”
  • Macedonian: “Мали”
  • Maithili: “माली”
  • Malagasy: “Mali”
  • Malagasy: “Malỳ”
  • Malay: “Mali”
  • Malay: “مالي”
  • Malayalam: “മാലി”
  • Maltese: “il-Mali”
  • Maltese: “Mali”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Mali”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯥꯂꯤ”
  • Manx: “Malee”
  • Manx: “Valee”
  • Maori: “Māri”
  • Marathi: “माली”
  • Mazanderani: “مالی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mali”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mali”
  • Minangkabau: “Mali”
  • Mingrelian: “მალი”
  • Mirandese: “Mali”
  • Moksha: “Мали”
  • Mongolian: “Мали”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مالي”
  • Mossi: “Malì”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߊ߬ߟߌ߬ߓߊ”
  • Nauru: “Mali”
  • Navajo: “Táłkááʼtsʼin Bitooʼ Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “माली”
  • Newari: “माली”
  • North Ndebele: “Mali”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maali”
  • Northern Luri: “مالی”
  • Northern Sami: “Mali dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Mali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mali”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Mali”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mali”
  • Norwegian: “Mali”
  • Novial: “Mali”
  • Obolo: “Mali”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mali”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܐܠܝ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܠܝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mali”
  • Oriya: “ମାଲି”
  • Oromo: “Maalii”
  • Ossetian: “Мали”
  • Pali: “माली”
  • Pampanga: “Mali”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਲੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Mali”
  • Pedi: “Mali”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Mali”
  • Persian: “مالی”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Mali”
  • Piemontese: “Mali”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Maali”
  • Polish: “Mali”
  • Portuguese: “Mali”
  • Portuguese: “Máli”
  • Portuguese: “República do Mali”
  • Pushto: “مالي”
  • Quechua: “Mali”
  • Quechua: “Malí”
  • Romanian: “Mali”
  • Romansh: “Mali”
  • Rundi: “Mali”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мали”
  • Russian: “Мали”
  • Russian: “Республика Мали”
  • Rusyn: “Малі”
  • Sakizaya: “Mali”
  • Samogitian: “Malis”
  • Sango: “Malïi”
  • Sanskrit: “माली”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱞᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Mali”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mali”
  • Scots: “Mali”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Màili”
  • Serbian: “Mali”
  • Serbian: “Мали”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mali”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမႃႇလီႇ”
  • Shona: “Maari”
  • Shona: “Mali”
  • Sicilian: “Mali”
  • Silesian: “Mali”
  • Sindhi: “مالي”
  • Sinhala: “මාලි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mali tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mali”
  • Slovak: “Mali”
  • Slovak: “Malijská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Mali”
  • Slovenian: “ml”
  • Slovenian: “MLI”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Mali”
  • Somali: “Maali”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالی”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Mali”
  • Southern Sotho: “Mali”
  • Spanish: “Mali”
  • Spanish: “Malí”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Malí”
  • Spanish: “República de Mali”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⵍⵉ”
  • Sundanese: “Mali”
  • Swahili: “Mali”
  • Swati: “IMali”
  • Swedish: “Mali”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Mali”
  • Swiss German: “Mali”
  • Tachelhit: “Mali”
  • Tagalog: “Mali”
  • Tajik: “Мали”
  • Tajik: “Малӣ”
  • Talysh: “Mali”
  • Tamil: “மாலி”
  • Taroko: “Mali”
  • Tatar: “Мали”
  • Telugu: “మాలి”
  • Thai: “ประเทศมาลี”
  • Thai: “มาลี”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ལི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ማሊ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Māli”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mali”
  • Tsonga: “Mali”
  • Tumbuka: “Mali”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “مالي”
  • Turkish: “Mali”
  • Turkmen: “Mali”
  • Twi: “Mali”
  • Tyap: “Mali”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Mali”
  • Udmurt: “Мали”
  • Uighur: “مالى”
  • Ukrainian: “Малі”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Малі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mali”
  • Urdu: “مالی”
  • Uzbek: “Mali”
  • Venetian: “Małì”
  • Veps: “Mali”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Mali”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Mali”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma-li”
  • Vietnamese: “Mali”
  • Vlaams: “Mali”
  • Vlax Romani: “Mali”
  • Volapük: “Maliyän”
  • Võro: “Mali”
  • Walloon: “Mali”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mali”
  • Welsh: “Mali”
  • Western Frisian: “Mali”
  • Western Frisian: “Maly”
  • Western Mari: “Мали”
  • Western Panjabi: “مالی”
  • Wolof: “Mali”
  • Wu Chinese: “马里”
  • Xhosa: “Mali”
  • Yakut: “Мали”
  • Yiddish: “מאלי”
  • Yiddish: “מאַלי”
  • Yoruba: “Mali”
  • Yoruba: “Málì”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬里”
  • Zeeuws: “Mali”
  • Zhuang: “Mali”
  • Zulu: “iMali”
  • Zulu: “IMali”
  • “ma Mali”
  • “Mali”
  • “Malis”
  • “ML”
  • “MLI”
  • “माली देस”

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