Mali
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Mali, offeecially the Republic o Mali (French: République du Mali, [ʁepyblik dy mali]), is a landlocked kintra in Wastren Africae. Mali mairches wi Algerie norle, Niger easle, Burkina Faso an the Côte d'Ivoire soothle, Guinea sooth-wastle, an Senegal an Mauritanie wastle. Its size is juist ower 1,240,000 km² wi a population o 14.5 million. Its caipital is Bamako.
Republic o Mali | |
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 Coat o airms | |
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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| Demonym(s) | Malian |
| Govrenment | Unitar semi-presidential republic |
• Preses | Assimi Goïta |
• Prime Meenister | Choguel Kokalla 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 consists o aicht regions an its norlan mairches racks howe intae the middle o the Sahara, while the kintra's soothren region, whaur the feck o indwallers bides, features the Niger an Sénégal rivers. The kintra's economic structur centres aroond agricultur an fishin. Some o Mali's naitural resoorces includes gowd, uranium, an saut.
Present-day Mali wis ance pairt o three Wast African empires that guidit trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (Mali's name faither), an the Songhai Empire. In the late 19t century, durin the Scrammle for Africae, Fraunce clauchtit owerance o Mali makkin 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 ahin haun, follaein Senegal's withdrawal frae the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itsel the independent Republic o Mali. Efter a lang track o time o ane-pairty rule, a 1991 coup led tae the writin o a new constitution an the estaiblishment o Mali as a democratic, multi-pairty state. Aboot hauf the population lives ablo the internaitional poverty line o US$1.25 a day.[7]
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