Western Africa
Flag of Mali
Where the Sahara meets a river of legends.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #00a830 33%
- #f0c000 33%
- #c00018 33%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Mali in numbers
| Official name | Republic of Mali |
|---|---|
| Capital | Bamako |
| Region | Western Africa, Africa |
| Population | 20,250,834 |
| Area | 1,240,192 km² · 16 people per km² |
| Currency | West African CFA franc (XOF) |
| Languages | French |
| Country codes | ML · MLI · .ml |
| Coastline | Landlocked |
Things worth knowing
- The Niger River loops north into the desert before bending back south, watering a vast inland delta of seasonal floods that farmers and fishermen have depended on for centuries.
- Medieval Timbuktu was a celebrated center of learning, where mosque-schools like Sankoré drew scholars and amassed great libraries of manuscripts on law, astronomy, and medicine.
- The Great Mosque of Djenné is the world's largest mud-brick building, replastered each year by the whole town in a communal festival that keeps its walls standing.
Did you know
The cliffside villages of the Dogon people cling to the Bandiagara Escarpment, a sandstone wall rising hundreds of meters above the plains.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.