Bandiagara
Sign in to saveBandiagara () is a small town and urban commune in the Mopti Region of Mali. The name translates roughly to "large eating bowl"—referring to the communal bowl meals are served in. Mainly on its Bandiagara Escarpment it has about 2,000 speakers of the vibrant Bangime language, an isolate used mainly as an anti-language; it has the highest point of the country.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bandiagara
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Bandiagara (6459419).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mali
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mali
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Mopti Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Cercle
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bandiagara Cercle
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2009 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 25564
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Mali
- Country
- Mali
- Located in
- Bandiagara Cercle
- Population
- 25564
- Elevation
- 388
- Time zone
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Image
- Bandiagara (6459419).jpg
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Bandiagara () is a small town and urban commune in the Mopti Region of Mali. The name translates roughly to "large eating bowl"—referring to the communal bowl meals are served in. Mainly on its Bandiagara Escarpment it has about 2,000 speakers of the vibrant Bangime language, an isolate used mainly as an anti-language; it has the highest point of the country.
Bandiagara is 65 km east-southeast of Mopti. A seasonal river, the Yamé, flows in a northeasterly direction through the town. The population includes a number of different ethnic groups including Dogons, Fulani and Bambaras.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bandiagara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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