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Kayes Region

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Kayes Region is one of eight first level national subdivisions in Mali called “Regions”. [1]

49 relations: Bafing National Park, Bafing River, Bafoulabé, Bafoulabé Cercle, Bakoy River, Boucle du Baoulé National Park, Capital city, Cercles of Mali, Dakar–Niger Railway, Diéma Cercle, Diéma, Mali, El Hadj Umar Tall, Félou Falls, French Sudan, Fula people, Ghana Empire, Gouina Falls, Guinea, Kayes, Kayes Cercle, Kéniéba, Kéniéba Cercle, Khasso, Khassonké people, Kita Cercle, Kita, Mali, Koulikoro Region, List of sovereign states, Louis Faidherbe, Mali, Mali Empire, Mandinka people, Mauritania, Nioro Cercle, Nioro du Sahel, Ousmane Sembène, Regions of Mali, Sadiola, Sahel, Senegal, Senegal River, Siege of Medina Fort, Soninke people, Sudan (region), Talari Gorges, UTC±00:00, Yalunka people, Yélimané, Yélimané Cercle.

Bafing National Park

The Bafing National Park lies in southern Mali.

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Bafing River

The Bafing River runs through Guinea and Mali and is about long.

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Bafoulabé

Bafoulabé is a town and rural commune in south-western Mali.

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Bafoulabé Cercle

Bafoulabé Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali.

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Bakoy River

The Bakoy or Bakoye River is a river in West Africa.

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Boucle du Baoulé National Park

The Boucle du Baoulé National Park lies in western Mali, in Kayes Region and Koulikoro Region, set up in 1982.

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Capital city

A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.

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Cercles of Mali

A cercle is the second level administrative unit in Mali.

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Dakar–Niger Railway

The Dakar–Niger Railway connects Dakar, Senegal to Koulikoro, Mali.

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Diéma Cercle

Diéma Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali.

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Diéma, Mali

Diéma is a rural commune and small town in the Cercle of Diéma in the Kayes Region of western Mali.

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El Hadj Umar Tall

al-Hajj Umar ibn Sa'id al-Futi Tal (حاج عمر بن سعيد طعل), (c. 1794–1864 CE), Umar Saidou Tall, born in Futa Tooro, Senegambia, was a West African political leader, Islamic scholar, Tijani Sufi and Toucouleur military commander who founded a brief empire encompassing much of what is now Guinea, Senegal, and Mali.

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Félou Falls

The Félou Falls (Chutes du Félou) are located on the Sénégal River upstream of Kayes in western Mali.

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French Sudan

French Sudan (Soudan français; السودان الفرنسي) was a French colonial territory in the federation of French West Africa from around 1880 until 1960, when it became the independent state of Mali.

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Fula people

The Fula people or Fulani or Fulany or Fulɓe (Fulɓe; Peul; Fulani or Hilani; Fula; Pël; Fulaw), numbering between 40 and 50 million people in total, are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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Ghana Empire

The Ghana Empire (700 until 1240), properly known as Awkar (Ghana or Ga'na being the title of its ruler), was located in the area of present-day southeastern Mauritania and western Mali.

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Gouina Falls

The Gouina Falls or Chutes de Gouina are on the Sénégal River in Mali between the towns of Bafoulabé (upstream) and Diamou (downstream) in the Kayes Region, where the river runs north from the Talari Gorges.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.

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Kayes

Kayes (Bambara: Kayi, Soninké: Xaayi) is a city in western Mali on the Sénégal River, with a population of 127,368 at the 2009 census.

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Kayes Cercle

Kayes Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali.

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Kéniéba

Kéniéba is a rural commune, small town and seat of Kéniéba Cercle in Mali's Kayes Region.

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Kéniéba Cercle

Kéniéba Cercle is a subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali.

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Khasso

Khasso or Xaaso was a West African kingdom of the 17th to 19th centuries, occupying territory in what is today Senegal and the Kayes Region of Mali.

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Khassonké people

The Khassonké (CAH-KES-SON-QUE) are an ethnic group of Mali's Kayes Region.

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Kita Cercle

Kita Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali.

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Kita, Mali

Kita is a town and urban commune in western Mali.

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Koulikoro Region

Koulikoro Region is a region in western Mali.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Louis Faidherbe

Louis Léon César Faidherbe (3 June 1818 – 29 September 1889) was a French general and colonial administrator.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.

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Mali Empire

The Mali Empire (Manding: Nyeni or Niani; also historically referred to as the Manden Kurufaba, sometimes shortened to Manden) was an empire in West Africa from 1230 to 1670.

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Mandinka people

The Mandinka (also known as Mandenka, Mandinko, Mandingo, Manding or Malinke) are an African ethnic group with an estimated global population of 11 million (the other three largest ethnic groups in Africa being the unrelated Fula, Hausa and Songhai peoples).

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Mauritania

Mauritania (موريتانيا; Gànnaar; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani; Mauritanie), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwestern Africa.

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Nioro Cercle

Nioro Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali.

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Nioro du Sahel

Nioro du Sahel often referred to as simply Nioro is a town and urban commune in the Kayes Region of western Mali, 241 km from the city of Kayes.

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Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène (1 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer.

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Regions of Mali

Since 2016, Mali has been divided into ten regions and one capital district.

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Sadiola

Sadiola is a ''commune'' and small town in western Mali, south of Kayes.

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Sahel

The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Senegal River

The Senegal River (نهر السنغال, Fleuve Sénégal) is a long river in West Africa that forms the border between Senegal and Mauritania.

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Siege of Medina Fort

The Siege of the Fort du Médine took place in 1857 at Médine near Kayes modern-day Mali, when the Toucouleur forces of El Hadj Umar Tall unsuccessfully besieged French colonial troops under General Louis Faidherbe, governor of Senegal.

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Soninke people

The Soninke, also called Sarakole, Seraculeh, or Serahuli, are a West African ethnic group found in eastern Senegal and its capital Dakar, northwestern Mali and Foute Djalon in Guinea, and southern Mauritania.

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Sudan (region)

The Sudan is the geographic region to the south of the Sahara, stretching from Western to eastern Central Africa.

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Talari Gorges

The Talari Gorges or Gorges de Talary are a series of gorges on the Sénégal River in Mali, between the towns of Bafoulabé (upstream) and Galougo (downstream) in the Kayes Region, at an altitude of about 75 meters or 249 feet above sea level.

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UTC±00:00

UTC±00:00 is the following time.

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Yalunka people

The Yalunka, also spelled Jallonke, Yalonga, Djallonké, Djallonka or Dialonké, are a Mande people who have lived in the Futa Jallon (Fouta Djallon), a mountainous region in Guinea, West Africa since about the 11th century.

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Yélimané

Yélimané is a town and principal settlement of the commune of Guidimé in the Cercle of Yélimané in the Kayes Region of south-western Mali.

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Yélimané Cercle

Yélimané Cercle is an administrative subdivision of the Kayes Region of Mali.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayes_Region

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