| Official
Name : |
RÉPUBLIQUE DU MALI. (Republic of Mali) |
| Total Area: |
1,240,190 square kilometres |
| Population: |
14.1 million (2011 estimate). |
| Languages: |
French (official), Bambara, Fulfuldé, Songhai, Tamashek. |
| Religions: |
Muslim 90%, Traditional 9%. |
| Capital: |
Bamako. Population 1.63 million (2009) |
| Currency: |
CFA franc, divided into 100 centimes. |
| Independant: |
In 1960 after having briefly joined with Senegal in 1959 in the Federation of Mali. |
| Geography: |
The low lying featureless terrain is dominated in the north by the virtually uninhabited Saharan plains of and the Taoudenni that rises in the NE to meet the Ahaggar Massif towards the Algerian frontier. The Niger river flows NE from the Guinean border irrigating some of the semiarid savannah. |
| Flag: |
Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), yellow and red. Similar in design to the French Tricolore.
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