{"id":26716,"date":"2024-09-20T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26716"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:41:51","slug":"mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mali:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>landlocked country<\/strong> in <strong>West Africa<\/strong> with an area of 1,240,192 sq. km.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Bamako\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering Countries<\/strong>: Mali borders seven other nations: <strong>Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, Algeria, and Mauritania.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Geography:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Approximately 65%<\/strong> of the country is covered by <strong>desert or semi-desert<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Sahara Desert<\/strong> makes up a large portion of Mali&#8217;s total land area.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Mali has a <strong>monotonous landscape,<\/strong> with <strong>plains and plateaus<\/strong> dominating the country&#8217;s topography.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The landscape transitions from the <strong>Sahara Desert<\/strong> in the north <strong>through the Sahel to the zone of Sudanian savanna <\/strong>in the south.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of the hottest nations<\/strong> on earth with an average temperature of 114.8 \u00b0F (46 \u00b0C) in the summer months.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Niger River<\/strong> flows through its interior, serving as its main source of water.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Although Mali is <strong>one of the largest countries in Africa<\/strong>, it has a relatively <strong>small population<\/strong>, which is largely centred along the Niger River.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>many ethnic groups<\/strong> in Mali. The <strong>largest of them is Bambara<\/strong>, making up 36.5% of the population.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>gained independence from France <\/strong>in 1960.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Languages<\/strong>: <strong>Bambara (most widely spoken),<\/strong> Dogon, Fulfulde, Manding, Arabic, Tuareg, <strong>French<\/strong>, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>key industry<\/strong> of Mali <strong>is agriculture<\/strong>, and its largest crop export is cotton. In addition, Mali is the third-largest gold exporter in Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: Niger River flows through which countries?<\/h3>\n<p>Niger, Guinea, Cote de Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Benin, Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria are the ten African countries that the river runs through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/dozens-killed-in-mali-attack-by-al-qaeda-affiliate\/article68661777.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dozens killed in Mali attack by Al-Qaeda affiliate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of 1,240,192 sq. km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}