Bamako

Bamako
—  Caipital Ceety an Cercle  —
View o Bamako
Bamako on the Niger River
Bamako Bamako on the Niger River
Coordinates: 12°39′N 8°0′W
Kintra	Mali
Region	Bamako Capital Destrict
Cercle	Bamako
Subdiveesions	Communes Commune I Commune II Commune III Commune IV Commune V Commune VI
Govrenment
- Marie du District	Adama Sangaré
Aurie
- Caipital Ceety an Cercle	245.0 km2 (94.6 sq mi)
- Metro	17,141.61 km2 (6,618.4 sq mi)
Hicht	350 m (1,148 ft)
Indwallers (1 Aprile 2009)(Census, proveesional)
- Caipital Ceety an Cercle	1,809,106
- Densitie	7,384.11/km2 (19,124.8/sq mi)
- Metro	2,757,234
- Metro  densitie	160.85/km2 (416.6/sq mi)
Time zone	Coordinatit Universal Time (UTC-0)

Bamako, population 1,809,106 (2009 Census, provisional), is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Mali, an currently estimatit tae be the fastest growin ceety in Africae (saxt fastest in the warld). It is locatit on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the Upper an Middle Niger Valleys, in the soothwastren pairt o the kintra. Bamako is the naition's admeenistrative center as well as a cercle, wi a river port locatit in nearbi Koulikoro, and a major regional trade and conference center. Bamako is the seivent lairgest Wast African urban center efter Lagos, Abidjan, Kano, Ibadan, Dakar an Accra. Manufactures include textiles, processed meat, an metal guids. There is commercial fishin on the Niger River.

The name Bamako comes frae the Bambara wird meanin "crocodile river".

Sister ceeties

• Angers, France (syne 1974)
• Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
• Dakar, Senegal
• Leipzig, Germany
• Rochester, New York United States (syne 1975)
• São Paulo, Brazil (syne 2000)

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