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Cities in Mali


Cities in Mali

  • Bamako ? the booming capital and largest city by far, fastest growing city in Africa, with a good claim to be the music capital of West Africa
  • Gao ? small city on the Niger in the far east of the country, one time capital of the Songhai Empire, and home to the Tomb of Askia
  • Kayes ? Mali's westernmost big city, by the border with Senegal, and best known for being the hottest continuously inhabited location in Africa
  • Kidal ? a remote Tuareg city, with notoriety as a center of the Tuareg rebel movement and for Al Qaeda activity
  • Mopti ? a city across three islands in the middle of the Niger; gateway to Dogon Country
  • Ségou ? Mali's third largest city and one-time capital of the Bamana Empire
  • Sikasso ? Mali's second largest city and one-time capital of the Kénédougou Empire
  • Timbuktu ? the legendary Saharan city of gold, trans-Saharan trade, and Islamic scholarship is nowadays a (fairly commercialized) center of Tuareg culture.

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