Mali
Coordinates: 17°N 4°W / 17°N 4°W
Republic o Mali
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Motto: "Un peuple, un but, une foi" (French) "Ane fowk, ane goal, ane faith" | |
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| Caipital and largest city |
Bamako 12°39′N 8°0′W / 12.650°N 8.000°W |
| Offeecial leids | French |
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| Ethnic groups | |
| Demonym | Malian |
| Govrenment | Unitar semi-presidential republic |
• Preses | Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta |
| Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga | |
| Legislatur | Naitional Assemmly |
| Unthirldom | |
• frae Francea | 20 Juin 1960 |
• as Mali | 22 September 1960 |
| Aurie | |
• Total | 1,240,192 km2 (478,841 sq mi) (23rd) |
• Water (%) | 1.6 |
| Population | |
• April 2009 census | 14,517,176[2] (67t) |
• Density | 11.7/km2 (30.3/sq mi) (215t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $40.909 billion[3] |
• Per capita | $2,357[3] |
| GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Tot | $15.172 billion[3] |
• Per capita | $874[3] |
| Gini (2010) |
33.0[4] medium |
| HDI (2015) |
 0.442[5]law · 175t |
| Currency | Wast African CFA franc (XOF) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| Drivin side | right[6] |
| Cawin code | +223 |
| ISO 3166 code | ML |
| Internet TLD | .ml |
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Mali, offeecially the Republic o Mali (French: République du Mali, /ma'li/ ), is a landlocked kintra in Wastren Africae. Mali borders Algerie on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso an the Côte d'Ivoire on the sooth, Guinea on the sooth-wast, an Senegal an Mauritanie on the wast. Its size is juist ower 1,240,000 km² wi a population o 14.5 million. Its caipital is Bamako.
Mali consists o aicht regions an its borders on the north reach deep intae the middle o the Sahara, while the kintra's soothren region, whaur the majority o indwallers live, features the Niger an Sénégal rivers. The kintra's economic structur centres aroond agricultur an fishin. Some o Mali's naitural resoorces include gowd, uranium, an saut.
Present-day Mali wis ance pairt o three Wast African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (frae which Mali is named), an the Songhai Empire. In the late 19t century, durin the Scramble for Africae, Fraunce seized control o Mali makin it a pairt o French Sudan. French Sudan (then kent as the Sudanese Republic) gained unthirldom in 1959 wi Senegal, as the Mali Federation. A year later, follaein Senegal's athdrawal frae the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itsel the independent Republic o Mali. Efter a lang period o ane-pairty rule, a 1991 coup led tae the writin o a new constitution an the establishment o Mali as a democratic, multi-pairty state. Aboot hauf the population live belaw the internaitional poverty line o US$1.25 a day.[7]
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ Presidency of Mali: Symboles de la République, L'Hymne National du Mali. Koulouba.pr.ml. Retrieved 4 Mey 2012.
- ↑ "Mali preliminary 2009 census". Institut National de la Statistique. Archived frae the oreeginal on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Mali". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ↑ "Gini Index". World Bank. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
- ↑ "2016 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ↑ Which side of the road do they drive on? Brian Lucas. August 2005. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
- ↑ Human Development Indices, Table 3: Human and income poverty, p. 35. Retrieved on 1 June 2009
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