Mali
Mali covers an area of 1,240,140 sq km with a population of 12 million, with 1.6 million of the population in the capital city Bamako, a charming city, with a botanical and zoological park and many decorative gardens.
- Other attraction sites are Segou, a city with ancient and eventful history. It was founded in 1620 by the Bozo people, and it evolved during the late seventeenth century at the time of political and social instability in Southern Mali.
- Timbuktu is an ancient town in Mali. It was the spiritual centre in the propagation of Islam throughout Africa, in the 15th-16th centuries.
- Others are Djenne, a historical city in Mali and Niono located in the Segou region. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Niono was a critical juncture in the camel-borne trans-Saharan trade in salt and gold, which generated enormous wealth for Mali.
