Explore Mali in Africa - Mali Tourism Info

Description and Basic Information

Mali with its capital Bamako is located in Africa (interior Western Africa, southwest of Algeria). It covers some 1,240,001 square kilometres (slightly less than twice the size of Texas) with 12,324,000 citizens. French and Bambara are the the languages spoken by people in Mali. Senegal, Niger, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mauritania and Burkina Faso are bordering countries.

Pictures from Bamako (Capital)

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About Mali

The topography features mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand with savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast. The average density of population is about 9 per km². The climate in can be described as subtropical to arid with hot and dry (February to June), rainy, humid, and mild (June to November), cool and dry (November to February). Potential natural disasters are hot, dust-laden harmattan haze common during dry seasons or recurring droughts or occasional Niger River flooding.

To reach someone in Mali dial +223 prior to a number. There are 81,000 installed telephones. And there are 3,742,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".ml". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz.

The country consists of 9 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Mali

Mali Tourism Information

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)

The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful architecture (houses, granaries, altars, sanctuaries and Togu Na, or communal meeting-places)....

Old Towns of Djenné

Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné became a market centre and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it was one of the centres for the propagation...

Timbuktu

Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and...

Tomb of Askia

The dramatic 17-m pyramidal structure of the Tomb of Askia was built by Askia Mohamed, the Emperor of Songhai, in 1495 in his capital Gao. It bears testimony to the power and riches of the empire...

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Mali

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Mali is growing at an rate of 2.61% (or by 359,671 citizens). Each year 74,224 people leave this country (or 5.40 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 3.15%. Or an total increase of 433,895 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.