Mali

Mali, offeecially the Republic o Mali (French: République du Mali, [ʁepyblik dy mali]), is a landlocked kintra in Wastren Africae. Mali mairches wi Algerie norle, Niger easle, Burkina Faso an the Côte d'Ivoire soothle, Guinea sooth-wastle, an Senegal an Mauritanie wastle. Its size is juist ower 1,240,000 km² wi a population o 14.5 million. Its caipital is Bamako.

Republic o Mali République du Mali  (French) ߡߊߟߌ ߞߊ ߝߊߛߏߖߊߡߊߣߊ (Mali ka Fasojamana)  (Bambara)
Banner Coat o airms
Motto: "Un peuple, un but, une foi" (French) "Ane fowk, ane goal, ane faith"
Anthem: Le Mali  (French)[1]
Location o  Mali  (green)
Caipital and largest city	Bamako 12°39′N 8°0′W
Offeecial leids	French
Naitional leids	Bambara Bomu Tieyaxo Bozo Toro So Dogon Maasina Fulfulde Hassaniya Arabic Mamara Senoufo Kita Maninkakan Soninke Koyraboro Senni Syenara Senoufo Tamasheq Xaasongaxango
Ethnic groups	50% Mande 16% Fula 13% Voltaic (Senufo / Bwa) 10% Tuareg / Moor 6% Songhai 4% ither
Demonym(s)	Malian
Govrenment	Unitar semi-presidential republic
• Preses	Assimi Goïta
• Prime Meenister	Choguel Kokalla Maïga
Legislatur	Naitional Assemmly
Unthirldom
• frae Francea	20 Juin 1960
• as Mali	22 September 1960
Aurie
• Total	1,240,192 km2 (478,841 sq mi) (23rd)
• Water (%)	1.6
Population
• April 2009 census	14,517,176[2] (67t)
• Density	11.7/km2 (30.3/sq mi) (215t)
GDP (PPP)	2017 estimate
• Total	$40.909 billion[3]
• Per capita	$2,357[3]
GDP (nominal)	2017 estimate
• Tot	$15.172 billion[3]
• Per capita	$874[3]
Gini (2010)	33.0[4] medium
HDI (2015)	0.442[5] law · 175t
Currency	Wast African CFA franc (XOF)
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
Drivin side	right[6]
Cawin code	+223
ISO 3166 code	ML
Internet TLD	.ml
As the Sudanese Republic, wi Senegal as the Mali Federation.

Territorial Organization

Mali consists o aicht regions an its norlan mairches racks howe intae the middle o the Sahara, while the kintra's soothren region, whaur the feck o indwallers bides, features the Niger an Sénégal rivers. The kintra's economic structur centres aroond agricultur an fishin. Some o Mali's naitural resoorces includes gowd, uranium, an saut.

Present-day Mali wis ance pairt o three Wast African empires that guidit trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (Mali's name faither), an the Songhai Empire. In the late 19t century, durin the Scrammle for Africae, Fraunce clauchtit owerance o Mali makkin it a pairt o French Sudan. French Sudan (then kent as the Sudanese Republic) gained unthirldom in 1959 wi Senegal, as the Mali Federation. A year ahin haun, follaein Senegal's withdrawal frae the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itsel the independent Republic o Mali. Efter a lang track o time o ane-pairty rule, a 1991 coup led tae the writin o a new constitution an the estaiblishment o Mali as a democratic, multi-pairty state. Aboot hauf the population lives ablo the internaitional poverty line o US$1.25 a day.^[7]