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Pages in category "Borders of Mali" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Algeria–Mali border; B.
Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria. It lies between latitudes 10° and 25°N, and longitudes 13°W and 5°E. Mali borders Algeria to the north-northeast, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso to the south-east, Ivory Coast to the south, Guinea to the south-west, and Senegal to the west and Mauritania to the ...
Eventually, in 1960, Mali was granted full independence. The situation in Algeria proved much more difficult, owing to the large community of French settlers in Algeria, and independence was only granted in 1962 after a bloody war. At that point the Algeria–Mali border became an international frontier between two sovereign states. [2]
The border starts in the north at the tripoint with Algeria, and then proceeds westwards in a straight line along the 25th parallel north for 172 km (107 m). [2] It then turns south-east in a long straight segment of some 955 km (593 m), followed by a much shorter straight line further to the south-east for 34 km (21 m), and a straight line to south-west for 94 km (59 m), before veering ...
Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (from which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. In the late 19th century, Mali fell under French control, becoming part of French Sudan. Mali gained independence in 1959 with Senegal, as the Mali Federation in ...
Ivory Coast–Mali border crossings (7 P) M. Mali–Mauritania border crossings (1 P) S. Mali–Senegal border crossings (2 P)
Algeria–Mali border; Algeria–Mauritania border; Algeria–Morocco border; Algeria–Niger border; Algeria–Tunisia border; Algeria–Western Sahara border; Andorra–France border; Andorra–Spain border; Angola–Democratic Republic of the Congo border; Angola–Republic of the Congo border; Angola–Zambia border; Argentina–Bolivia border
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