Mali

sovereign state, landlocked country, country
Part of	West Africa
Year dem found am	22 September 1960
Official name	Mali, Mali ka Fasojamana
Native label	Mali
Dem name after	Mali Empire
Anthem	Pour l'Afrique et pour toi
Culture	culture of Mali
Continent	Africa
Country	Mali
Capital	Bamako
Located in time zone	UTC±00:00, Africa/Bamako
Coordinate location	17°0′0″N 4°0′0″W
Coordinates of easternmost point	18°0′0″N 4°15′57″E
Coordinates of northernmost point	25°0′0″N 5°30′0″W
Coordinates of southernmost point	10°8′52″N 7°3′0″W
Coordinates of westernmost point	14°45′52″N 12°14′24″W
Highest point	Mount Hombori
Lowest point	Senegal River
Office held by head of state	President of Mali
State ein head	Assimi Goïta
Office head of government hold	Prime Minister of Mali
Government ein head	Choguel Kokalla Maïga
Legislative body	National Assembly
Central bank	Central Bank of West African States
Public holiday	Mali Independence Day
Currency	West African CFA franc
Driving side	right
Electrical plug type	Europlug, Type E
Dey replace	Mali Federation, French Sudan, French West Africa
Dema official website	http://www.primature.gov.ml
Hashtag	Mali
Top-level Internet domain	.ml
Flag	flag of Mali
Coat of arms	Coat of Arms of Mali
Geography of topic	geography of Mali
Get characteristic	partly free country
History of topic	history of Mali
Economy of topic	economy of Mali
Demographics of topic	demographics of Mali
Madhhab	Malikism
Mobile country code	610
Country calling code	+223
Emergency phone number	112, 15, 17, 18
Licence plate code	RMM
Maritime identification digits	649
Unicode character	🇲🇱
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of Mali

Mali, officially de Republic of Mali, be landlocked country insyd West Africa. Ebe de eighth-largest country insyd Africa, plus area of over 1,241,238 square kilometres (479,245 sq mi).^[1] De country is bordered to de north by Algeria, to de east by Niger, to de northwest by Mauritania, to de south by Burkina Faso den Ivory Coast, den to de west by Guinea den Senegal. De population of Mali be 24,478,595,^[2]^[3] 47.19% of wich na dem estimate say ebe under de age of 15 insyd 2024.^[4] Ein capital den largest city be Bamako. De country get 13 official languages, of wich dem mostly dey speak Bambara.

Politics den government

Regions den cercles

Since 2016, na dem divide Mali into ten regions den de District of Bamako.^[5] Each region get a governor.^[6] De implementation of de two newest regions, Taoudénit (formerly part of Tombouctou Region) den Ménaka (formerly Ménaka Cercle insyd Gao Region), na e dey go on since January 2016;^[7]^[8] na dem appoint a governor den transitional council give both regions.^[9]

Since 2023, Mali add nine new regions to ein administrative structure, wey dey bring de total to 19 regions plus de district of Bamako. Dis reorganization dey aim make e improve governance den bring public services closer to local populations. Dis initiative dey continue de decentralization efforts wey begin plus de creation of de Taoudénit den Ménaka regions insyd 2016. Dem subdivide de nineteen regions into 159 cercles den 815 communes.^[10]^[11]

De régions den Capital District be:^[12]^[13]

No	Region name	Area (km²)	Population Census 2023
00	Bamako Capital District	252	4 227 569
01	Kayes	62,914	1 840 329
02	Koulikoro	71,178	2 255 157
03	Sikasso	21,378	1 533 123
04	Ségou	31,996	2 455 263
05	Mopti	49,077	935 579
06	Tombouctou	180,781	974 278
07	Gao	89,532	727 517
08	Kidal	151,430	83 192
09	Taoudénit	323,326	100 358
10	Ménaka	81,040	318 876
11	Bougouni	41,052	1 570 979
12	Dioila	12,984	675 965
13	Nioro	24,179	678 061
14	Koutiala	14,739	1 169 882
15	Kita	44,175	681 671
16	Nara	26,213	307 777
17	Bandiagara	25,709	868 916
18	San	15,516	820 807
19	Douentza	63,515	170 189
Total		1,240,192	22 395 489

Demographics

Largest cities in Mali

[edit | edit source] For a more comprehensive list, see List of cities in Mali.

Largest cities anaa towns insyd Mali According to de 2009 Census^[14]
Rank	Name	Region	Pop.
1	Bamako	Bamako	1,810,366
2	Sikasso	Sikasso	226,618
3	Koutiala	Sikasso	141,444
4	Ségou	Ségou	133,501
5	Kayes	Kayes	126,319
6	Mopti	Mopti	120,786
7	Kalabancoro	Koulikoro	96,173
8	Gao	Gao	86,353
9	Kati	Koulikoro	84,500
10	San	Ségou	66,967

Languages

According to de 2009 census, na de languages dem dey speak natively insyd Mali be Bambara by 51.5%, Fula (8.3%), Dogon (6.6%) Soninké (5.7%), Songhai (5.3%), Mandinka (5.2%), Minianka (3.8%), Tamasheq (3.2%), Sénoufo (2%), Bobo (1.9%), Tieyaxo Bozo (1.6%), Kassonké (1.1%), Maure (1%), Dafing (0.4%), Samogo (0.4%), Arabic (Hassaniya) (0.3%), oda Malian languages (0.5%), oda African languages (0.2%), den oda non-African languages (0.2%); 0.7% no declare dema first language.^[15]

References

↑ "Mali country profile". BBC News. 19 October 2023. Archived from the original on 11 September 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
↑ "World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
↑ "World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950-2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
↑ "Index Mundi using CIA World Factbook statistics, January 20, 2018, retrieved April 13, 2019". Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
↑ Martin, Phillip L. (2006). Managing Migration: The Promise of Cooperation. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7391-1341-7.
↑ DiPiazza, p. 37.
↑ "Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Mali" (PDF). MINUSMA. 28 March 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
↑ "Régionalisation: Deux Nouvelles régions créées au Mali". Malijet. 21 January 2016. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
↑ "Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Mali" (PDF). MINUSMA. 30 December 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
↑ "Loi N°99-035/ Du 10 Aout 1999 Portant Creation des Collectivites Territoriales de Cercles et de Regions" (PDF) (in French). Ministère de l'Administration Territoriales et des Collectivités Locales, République du Mali. 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2012.
↑ Djiguiba, Issa (21 September 2024). "Administrative and territorial division: the new administrative map of Mali is operational". www.ortm.ml. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
↑ Coulibaly, Bassidi (October 2013). "Etats Generaux De La Decentralisation" (PDF) (insyd French). arpdeveloppement.com. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
↑ "CINQUIEME RECENSEMENT GENERAL DE LA POPULATION ET DE L'HABITAT (insyd French)" (PDF). www.instat-mali.org. November 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
↑ "Mali: Regions, Major Cities & Localities". Population Statistics in Maps and Charts. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
↑ "4ème RECENSEMENT GENERAL DE LA POPULATION ET DE L'HABITAT DU MALI (RGPH-2009)" [4th GENERAL POPULATION CENSUS AND HABITAT OF MALI (RGPH-2009)] (PDF) (in French). Mali National Institute of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.

Bibliography

"Constitution of Mali" (PDF) (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2008. A student-translated English version Archived 12 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine is also available.
"Country profile: Mali" (PDF). Library of Congress – Federal Research Division. January 2005. Retrieved 30 July 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
DiPiazza, Francesca Davis (2006). Mali in Pictures. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Learner Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8225-6591-8. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
Milet, Eric & Manaud, Jean-Luc (2007). Mali (in French). Editions Olizane. ISBN 978-2-88086-351-7.
Velton, Ross (2004). Mali. Bradt Travel Guides. ISBN 978-1-84162-077-0.

External links

Official website Archived 9 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine
Wikimedia Atlas of Mali
Geographic data related to Mali at OpenStreetMap
Mali Archived 30 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
Mali profile Archived 24 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine from the BBC News
Possibilities and Challenges for Transitional Justice in Mali Archived 18 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine from the ICTJ
Facebook group about Ngoni Archived 19 February 2022 at the Wayback Machine, dem consider am a traditional instrument of Mali; dem sanso know am as Xalam, Jeli N'goni, Hoddu, Khalam, Tehardent, anaa Gambare
Mali 2012 Trade Summary Statistics Archived 7 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Mali Population-Worldometer

[1] "Mali country profile". BBC News. 19 October 2023. Archived from the original on 11 September 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2023.

[2] "World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.

[3] "World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950-2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.

[4] "Index Mundi using CIA World Factbook statistics, January 20, 2018, retrieved April 13, 2019". Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2019.

[5] Martin, Phillip L. (2006). Managing Migration: The Promise of Cooperation. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7391-1341-7.

[pictures-6] DiPiazza, p. 37.

[7] "Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Mali" (PDF). MINUSMA. 28 March 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[malijet-8] "Régionalisation: Deux Nouvelles régions créées au Mali". Malijet. 21 January 2016. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[9] "Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Mali" (PDF). MINUSMA. 30 December 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

[10] "Loi N°99-035/ Du 10 Aout 1999 Portant Creation des Collectivites Territoriales de Cercles et de Regions" (PDF) (in French). Ministère de l'Administration Territoriales et des Collectivités Locales, République du Mali. 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2012.

[11] Djiguiba, Issa (21 September 2024). "Administrative and territorial division: the new administrative map of Mali is operational". www.ortm.ml. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

[12] Coulibaly, Bassidi (October 2013). "Etats Generaux De La Decentralisation" (PDF) (insyd French). arpdeveloppement.com. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

[13] "CINQUIEME RECENSEMENT GENERAL DE LA POPULATION ET DE L'HABITAT (insyd French)" (PDF). www.instat-mali.org. November 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

[14] "Mali: Regions, Major Cities & Localities". Population Statistics in Maps and Charts. Retrieved 5 September 2019.

[15] "4ème RECENSEMENT GENERAL DE LA POPULATION ET DE L'HABITAT DU MALI (RGPH-2009)" [4th GENERAL POPULATION CENSUS AND HABITAT OF MALI (RGPH-2009)] (PDF) (in French). Mali National Institute of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.

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