Mali

Mali, offeecially the Republic o 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.

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.Human Development Indices, Table 3: Human and income poverty, p. 35. Retrieved on 1 June 2009

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Category:Kintras in Africae
Category:African Union member states
Category:Member states o La Francophonie
Category:Umwhile colonies o Fraunce
Category:French-speakin kintras
Category:Landlocked kintras
Category:Leeberal democracies
Category:Least Developed Kintras
Category:Member states o the Organisation o Islamic Cooperation
Category:States an territories established in 1960
Category:Member states o the Unitit Naitions