Bamako

Bamako (, Bàmakɔ̌, , Bamako) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Mali, an currently estimatit tae be the fastest growin ceety in Africae (saxt fastest in the warld). It is locatit on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the Upper an Middle Niger Valleys, in the soothwastren pairt o the kintra. Bamako is the naition's admeenistrative centre as well as a cercle, wi a river port locatit in nearbi Koulikoro, an a major regional tred an conference centre. Bamako is the seivent lairgest Wast African urban centre efter Lagos, Abidjan, Kano, Ibadan, Dakar an Accra. Manufactures include textiles, processed meat, an metal guids. Thare is commercial fishin on the Niger River.

The name Bamako comes frae the Bambara wird meanin "crocodile river".

Sister ceeties
 Angers, Fraunce (syne 1974)
 Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
 Dakar, Senegal
 Leipzig, Germany
 Rochester, New York United States (syne 1975)
 São Paulo, Brazil (syne 2000)

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Category:Regional caipitals in Mali
Category:Cercles o Mali
Category:Populatit places in Mali
Category:Caipitals in Africae
Category:Caipital destricts an territories
Category:Regions o Mali
Category:Communities on the Niger River