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Mali

Republic of Mali
Africa · Western Africa

0Population

1.24Mkm² of land

$879GDP / person

BamakoCapital

ISO codes: ML · MLI
Density: 16 /km²
Languages: French
Currency: West African CFA franc (XOF)
Dial code: +223
Internet domain: .ml
Time zones: 1
Coastline: Landlocked
Map centre: 18.6930° N, 2.0380° W
Demonym: Malian
UN region: Western Africa
Economy: Least developed region
Income group: Low income
Total GDP: $17.28B
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 7

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By the numbers

How Mali stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

60th

of 242 · 0.26% of world population

Land area

25th

of 242 · 0.83% of world land

GDP per person

214th

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

205th

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about Mali

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

Timbuktu's manuscript libraries preserved hundreds of thousands of texts from the medieval Islamic world.

2

Population is about 19,658,031 people, the 60th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.26 per cent of everyone alive.

3

Covers 1,240,192 km², making it the 25th largest country here - about 5.1 times the size of the United Kingdom.

4

Population density is about 16 people per km².

5

The capital is Bamako, at 12.65° N, 8.00° W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,494,000.

6

Shares land borders with 7 countries: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Mauritania (and 2 more).

7

Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.

8

Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Bamako.

9

The currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr).

10

The official language is French.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Africa/Bamako

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UTC+00:00

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 ★ Bamako Bamako 12.6520° N, 8.0020° W 1.49M

2 Ségou Ségou 13.4400° N, 6.2600° W 122.95K

3 Gao Gao 16.2666° N, 0.0500° W 116.97K

4 Kayes Kayes 14.4500° N, 11.4400° W 77.21K

5 Timbuktu Timbuktu 16.7666° N, 3.0166° W 68.87K

6 Djenné Mopti 13.9000° N, 4.5500° W 32.94K

Land neighbours

7 countries share a border with Mali.