Mali

Facts

What the numbers say about Mali

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 13.6× the size of Mali.
• Mali ranks 22nd of 239 by area but only 59th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 18 people per km², Mali is the 155th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Mali lies at 17°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Mali's main territory stretches about 1,650 km north to south and 1,760 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,240,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,253,000 km², to within 2%.

How Mali measures up

Mali holds 4.2% of the land area and 1.6% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 1st largest of 16.

Where Mali sits

• Mali's centre lies at 17.3°N, 3.6°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 1,930 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 10°N to 25°N, about 1,650 km from its southern edge to its northern.
• The prime meridian passes through it.

If Mali had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Mali would have 1.57 billion people. It has 22.4 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Mali would have 4.7 million people. It has 22.4 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 90.6 million.

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