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Mali Culture, Geography and History
Geography and Environment of Mali
As the largest country in West Africa, landlocked Mali shares thousands of kilometres of land borders with many other nations, including Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger and Cote d'Ivoire. With the majority of Mali's terrain being arid or semi-arid desert, arable land isn't commonly found, with estimates that less than 5% of its land is farmable. The Niger River (and to a lesser extent the Senegal River) has a multitude of uses - as a transport route, irrigator, food and water provider. The people of Mali live in vastly different ways - from city dwellers living in lively urban centres like Bamako, to the nomadic Touareg of the sparse desert to the traditional Dodon people who have inhabited the same isolated villages for centuries.
History and Government of Mali
Other Resources
Recommended Reading
- Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali -
- The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu -
- Desert Burial -
- Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali -
- A Spirit of Tolerance -
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Mali at a glance
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- Bamako (population 750,000)
- 13.7 million
- French
- XOF
- (GMT) Casablanca
- Type C (European 2-pin), Type E (French 2-pin, female earth)
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