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COUNTRY FACTS: MALI
Name(official): Republic of Mali
Name(short): Mali
Capital City: Bamako
Location: Western Africa
Coordinate: 17 00N, 4 00 W
Independence: (from France) September 22nd; 1960.
President: Amadou Toumani Toure(President),
Ousmane Issoufi Maiga(Prime Minister)
Type of Government: Republic
Total Area: 1.24million sq.km.
Population: 11 716 829 (July 2006 est.)
People: Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5%.
Religion: muslim 90%, indigenous belief 9%, christians 1%.
Languages: French(official), 80% also speak Bambara, other local languages.
Literacy: 46.4%total, 53.5%male, 39.6%female (2003 est.)
Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc
(1CFAF= 100centimes)
GDP(per capita): $1 200 (2005 est.)
Arable Land: 3.76% (2005est.)
Agriculture: Corn, cotton, millet, cattles, sheep, goats,rice, vegetables, peanuts.
Natural resources: Uranium, gypsum, gold, phosphate, kaolin, salt, limestone, granite, hydropower.
The unexploited areas include:bauxite, iron ore, manganese, tin and copper.
Embassy in Japan: Embassy of the Republic of Mali,
Chancery: 3-12-9, Kami-Osaki, Shinagawa-ku.
Post Code: 141-0021 Tel. 03-5447-6881
General Info:
International Phone Code: +223

ECONOMY: BUSINESS, TRADE AND INVESTMENT

  • Tourism:

MAJOR CITIES

Bamako, Sikasso, Segou, Mopti, Koutiala.

NEWS

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

GOVERNMENT: ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

Mali is divided into 8 regions, namely:
Gao, Kayes, Kidal, Koulikoro, Mopti, Segou, Sikasso, Tombouctou.

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS

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