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Mali is a landlocked country situated in West Africa. It has land borders with Algeria in the north and northwest, Niger in the east and south, Burkina Fasso and Ivory Coast in the south, Guinea to the southwest, Senegal to the west and Mauritania to the west and northwest.
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Over 1,241,000km2, Mali is the largest country in West Africa. It's bordered by Algeria to the North, Senegal to the west, Mauritania to the northwest, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire to the south.
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Additionally, in November 2003, Mali will host its first "Desert Marathon" in which four hundred runners from all over the world will cover 250 miles in the sands north of Timbuktu. There will ... be a nautical rally down the Niger River. Minister N'Diaye is currently enacting legislation to require tour guides to be trained and licensed, and to help protect the local culture that draws visitors from all over the world, including anthropologists who are fascinated by the mysterious cliff-dwelling Dogon people. According to Minister N'Diaye, "Mali intends to turn itself into the biggest tourist destination in West Africa by 2005 with the assistance of many North American travel and tourism professionals".
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Mali prospered only as long as there was strong leadership. Sundjata established himself as a great religious and secular leader, claiming the greatest and most direct link with the spirits of the land and ... the guardian of the ancestors. After Sundjata, most of the rulers of Mali were Muslim, some of whom made the hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). The most famous haji (pilgrim to Mecca) was Mansa Musa, king of Mali and grandson of one of Sundjata's sisters. In 1324, accompanied by some 60,000 people and carrying large quantities of gold, Mansa Musa traveled from Niani along the Niger to Timbuktu and then across the Sahara via the salt mines of Taghaza from oasis to oasis, to reach Cairo. From there he went on to Mecca and Medina.
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Mali is located in western Africa. Mali is bordered by Senegal and Mauritania to the west, Algeria to the north, Niger to the east, and Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the south.
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Mali, the largest country in West Africa, is bordered by seven other states: Algeria lies to the north and northeast, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso to the southeast and, with the Ivory Coast, to the south. On the west are Senegal and Mauritania.
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