page_title: Mali
section_title: Regions and cercles
hierarchical_section_title: Mali / Regions and cercles
caption_attribution_description: Mali regions
context_page_description: Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Physical features of Mali include the Sahara desert in the north, with the Niger River and Sénégal River in the southern part of the country. As of a July 2011 estimate, Mali has a population of approximately 14,000,000 people. Mali has a total area of 1,220,190 square kilometres. Most of the people live in the southern part of the country, with Mali's capital and most populated city being Bamako.
  Mali. Four civilians killed in Saturday and overnight violence in Bamako
context_section_description: Mali is divided into 8 regions and 1 district. The country is further divided into 49 cercles, containing 288 "arrondissements" and 703 communes.
  The regions and district are:
  Gao
  Kayes
  Kidal
  Koulikoro
  Mopti
  Ségou
  Sikasso
  Tombouctou (Timbuktu)
  Bamako (capital district)
caption: Mali regions
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