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Until the military coup of March 22, 2012 [1] [2] and a second military coup in December 2012 [3] the politics of Mali took place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Mali is head of state with a Presidentially appointed Prime Minister as the head of government, and of a multi-party system.
Mali, [c] officially the Republic of Mali, [d] is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa , with an area of over 1,240,192 square kilometres (478,841 sq mi). [ 9 ]
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 ...
A map of Mali Location of Mali. Mali is a landlocked nation in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria, extending south-west from the southern Sahara Desert through the Sahel to the Sudanian savanna zone. Mali's size is 1,240,192 square kilometers. Desert or semi-desert covers about 65 percent of Mali's total area (1,240,192 square kilometers).
Since 2016, Mali has been divided into ten regions and one capital district.A reorganization of the country from eight to nineteen regions was passed into law in 2012, [1] but of the new regions, only Taoudénit (partitioned from Tombouctou Region) and Ménaka (formerly Ménaka Cercle in Gao Region) have begun to be implemented.
Mali is a member of the United Nations (and many of its specialized agencies), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
A clickable map of Mali exhibiting its eight regions and capital district. This page was last edited on 1 November 2023, at 06:50 (UTC). Text is ...
A map of Mali Bamako, the capital and Mali's largest city, 2008 Sikasso, Mali's second largest city, 2008 Ségou, Mali's fifth largest city, 2008. This list of cities in Mali tabulates all the largest communes in the country of Mali (including those in the north-eastern portion where the Mali Government no longer exercises de facto control).