Mali

Mali

Mali ranks 103rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cyprus, Libya, and Bangladesh. Memorable people born in present day Mali include Musa I of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, and Jean Tigana. Memorable people who died in Mali include Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Sundiata Keita, and Modibo Keïta. Mali has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and singers.

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over 1,241,238 square kilometres (479,245 sq mi). The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east by Niger, to the northwest by Mauritania, to the south by Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast, and to the west by Guinea and Senegal. The population of Mali is 21.9 million, 67% of which was estimated to be under the age of 25 in 2017. Its capital and largest city is Bamako. The country has 13 official languages, of which Bambara is the most commonly spoken. Read more on Wikipedia