Bamako
Capital of Mali, historic trade centre on the Niger River.
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Where it is
Coordinates: 12°38′20″N 8°00′11″W (12.6390, -8.0030) · Open in OpenStreetMap
Coordinates and connected clubs: the infobox of Wikipedia: Bamako (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map: drawn by Codexery from OpenStreetMap tiles.
According to census records, Bamako's population was 2,500 in 1884 and reached 4,227,569 by the 2022 census.[1]
Geography and history
Early chiefdoms in the Niger River Valley grew wealthy from trade routes linking west Africa, the Sahara, and northern Africa as early as the 600s BCE.[2] The kafu of Bamako was founded around 1650 by the Niare family.[3] The District of Bamako has been divided into six communes since Ordinance No. 78-34/CNLM of 18 August 1978.[4] Settlements in the Bamako area have been documented from the Palaeolithic period onward.[2]
During his Niger River expedition in 1806, the Scottish traveler Mungo Park assessed Bamako's population at 6,000.[3][5] On 1 February 1883, French commander Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes led a force to construct a fort at Bamako.[6] A demonstration in central Bamako on 22 March 1991 was met with violent force; around 300 people are believed to have died.[7]
What the cited sources add
The AIDDATA project record notes that the China-Mali Friendship Bridge is 1,626.5 meters long and 24 meters wide.[8] The foundation stone for that bridge was laid on 13 February 2009, with 40 Chinese engineers arriving three months earlier.[8] President Amadou Toumani Toure inaugurated the China-Mali Friendship Bridge on 22 September 2011.[8] The French project title for this bridge is "La construction du 3ème pont de Bamako" or "Pont de l'amitié sino-malienne".[8]
The Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, a colonial-era organization, established the National Library of Mali in 1944.[9] Over 60,000 items are held by the library, which are accessible to the public at no charge, although a small fee is charged for borrowing.[9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Bamako" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Institut national de la statistique (Mali), Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat 2009 , instat-mali.org, Mali, 3 April 2014 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bamako" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Bamako – History", Africatravelling.net (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bamako" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Perinbam 1999, p. 4; Fofana, "Point d’Histoire du Mali: Le Royaume de Sosso ou Khaniaga des Soninké", Soninkara, 31 July 2007; Perinbam 1999, p. 4 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bamako" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ordonnance n° 78-34/CNLM du 18 août 1978, modifiée par une loi de février 1982 fixant les nouvelles limites des Communes III et IV, cité par Doussou Djiré, Comm (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bamako" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Imperato 1996, p. 45; Perinbam 1999, p. 4 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bamako" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fofana, "L' Almami Samori Touré Empereur", Présence Africaine, 1998 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bamako" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Patrick Manning. Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880–1995: 1880–1995. Cambridge University Press (1998) pp.198–199; "Bamako – History", Africatravelling.net (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Chinese Government provides RMB 345.9 million grant for China-Mali Friendship Bridge Construction Project", AIDDATA. facts only, no text reused. china.aiddata.org
- Wikipedia, "Bamako" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kent, "Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 45 - Supplement 10: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition to Vocabularies for Online Subject Searching", CRC Press, 26 September 1989, p. 247– (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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- Wikipedia: Bamako (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Word definitions: the Codexery glossary, each quoted from its Wikipedia article.
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