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Mali
Mali is a country in Western Africa with its capital in Bamako.
- Capital
- Bamako
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
- Population
- 22.4 million
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (Fr)
- Area
- 1,240,192 km²
- Borders
- 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 🇬🇳 Guinea 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 🇲🇷 Mauritania 🇳🇪 Niger 🇸🇳 Senegal
💡 Timbuktu was the medieval world's leading center of learning.
About the flag
It first carried a black human figure in the centre, but it was removed in 1961 after objections to depicting a person, leaving a plain tricolour.
How to spot it: Plain vertical green-gold-red with green at the hoist; Guinea is the reverse, Senegal adds a green star.
Often confused with: 🇬🇳 Guinea 🇸🇳 Senegal 🇨🇲 Cameroon