Mali

Africa

Did you know?

•Timbuktu in Mali was once one of the great centers of trade and Islamic scholarship in the Sahara-Sahel world.
•Most of Mali lies in the Sahara or the Sahel, while the Niger River supports the country's most populated southern belt.
•Mali is one of West Africa's largest countries by area, yet it has no coastline at all.

Key Information

Capital

Bamako

Population

22,4 million

Area

1,240,192 km²

GDP

28,5 billion $

Currency

XOF

Difficulty on MapGuesser

Medium

Subregion

Western Africa

Calling code

+223

MapGuesser Tip

Mali is the large landlocked Sahel country south of Algeria and west of Niger.

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Official Languages

FrenchBambara

Flag Colors

vertorrouge

Flag History

The national flag of Mali is a vertical tricolour of green, gold, and red, the pan-African colours. The flag of Mali is almost identical to the flag of Guinea, with the exception that the colours are in reverse order.

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