Map of Mali

Mali is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 17.0° N, 4.0° W. Mali is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 7 neighbours — Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Mali is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Mali is surrounded by the following 7 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Mali covers about 1,240,192 km² (478,841 sq mi). That makes it the 23rd-largest country in the world by area and the 8th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 46 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 22,395,489, the 60th-largest in the world and the 20th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Mali has an average population density of about 18 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 20th by population and 8th by area.

The seat of government is Bamako, and the official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Mali carries the ISO country codes ML and MLI, dials on the international calling code +223 and uses the .ml internet domain.

Mali shares its land borders with 7 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Algeria (capital Algiers, about 47,400,000 people), Cote d'Ivoire (capital Yamoussoukro, about 31,719,275 people), Niger (capital Niamey, about 26,312,034 people), Burkina Faso (capital Ouagadougou, about 24,070,553 people), Senegal (capital Dakar, about 18,593,258 people), Guinea (capital Conakry, about 14,363,931 people) and Mauritania (capital Nouakchott, about 4,927,532 people).

By area, Mali is larger than 5 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 17.0° N, 4.0° W and opens at zoom level 4, framing Mali within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Bamako. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Mali lies about 1,887 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Mali keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr).

The official language is French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +223 and websites commonly use the .ml internet domain.

In short, Mali is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 7 countries. Its capital is Bamako. Mali has a population of about 22,395,489 and covers around 1,240,192 km² (478,841 sq mi), ranking it 60th in the world by population and 23rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Mali.

The flag of Mali is composed of three equal vertical bands of green, yellow and red.

The flag of Mali is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.