!!!Mali: Geography ||Location|interior Western Africa, southwest of Algeria, north of Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, west of Niger ||Geographic Coordinates|17 00 N, 4 00 W[{GoogleMap location='17.0,-4.0' zoom='4'}] ||Area |''total: ''1,240,192 sq km\\''land: ''1,220,190 sq km\\''water: ''20,002 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 1240192\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 1240187\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 1240000\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 1240000\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 1248574\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 1240000''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] ||Land boundaries|''total: ''7,243 km\\''border countries: ''Algeria 1,376 km, Burkina Faso 1,000 km, Guinea 858 km, Cote d'Ivoire 532 km, Mauritania 2,237 km, Niger 821 km, Senegal 419 km ||Coastline|0 km (landlocked) ||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Senegal River 23 m\\''highest point: ''Hombori Tondo 1,155 m ||Highest Mountains|__As there is no entry in [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com] we are listing mountain list of [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org] only:__\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Hombori Tondo 1155 m; Kavorou 1045 m; Kéra 1006 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] ||Terrain|mostly flat to rolling northern plains covered by sand; savanna in south, rugged hills in northeast ||Natural Hazards|hot, dust-laden harmattan haze common during dry seasons; recurring droughts; occasional Niger River flooding ||Natural Resource|gold, phosphates, kaolin, salt, limestone, uranium, gypsum, granite, hydropower note: bauxite, iron ore, manganese, tin, and copper deposits are known but not exploited ||Land Use|''arable land: ''5.53%\\''permanent crops: ''0.1%\\''other: ''94.37% (2011) ||Climate|subtropical to arid; hot and dry (February to June); rainy, humid, and mild (June to November); cool and dry (November to February) ||Irrigated Land|2,358 sq km (2003) ||Renewable Water Resources|100 cu km (2011) ||Environment_CurrentIssues|deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; inadequate supplies of potable water; poaching ||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements ||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Bamako; Sikasso; Mopti; Koutiala; Kayes\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Bamako; Sikasso; Mopti; Koutiala; Ségou\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Mali/Geography/Important_Cities] ||Geography-note|landlocked; divided into three natural zones: the southern, cultivated Sudanese; the central, semiarid Sahelian; and the northern, arid Saharan