Happy Independence Day Mali 🇲🇱 ___________ 1• On September 22, 1960, Mali gained independence from France. 2• Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. 3• Bamako is its capital and largest city. 4• French is its official language. 5• Mali is bordered by Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast (or Côte d’Ivoire), Guinea, Senegal and Mauritania. 6• Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, comparable in size to the nation of South Africa and almost twice the size of the U.S. state of Texas. 7• Mali’s most frequently exported natural resources include gold, phosphates, salt, limestone, kaolin, uranium, and granite. Mali depends on agricultural exports and gold mining for its main revenue. 8• Gold is mined in Mali’s southern region and generates the third highest total gold production in all of Africa, after South Africa and Ghana. 9• Thirty four percent of the land is used as agricultural land, with 5.6 percent in arable land and 28.4 percent in permanent pastureland. Forests occupy ten percent of Mali. ____________ 📸 @ousmanemakaveli @visualsbyponzio @rogeranis Cc @mali_paw_b_di