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Key facts
- Country
- Mali
- Capital
- Kidal
- Governor
- El Hadj Ag Gamou
- Total
- 151,450 km (58,480 sq mi)
- Density
- 0.54179/km (1.4032/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC±0 ( UTC )
- Iso 3166 code
- ML-8
- Hdi 2017
- 0.386 , low · 5th
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Mali
- Country
- Mali
- Located in
- Mali
- Capital
- Kidal
- Population
- 83192
- Area
- 151450.0
- Elevation
- 529
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Tahoua Region
- Image
- Maison artisans.JPG
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- Commons category
- Kidal Region
- topic's main category
- Category:Kidal Region
- native label
- Kidal
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Encyclopedic overview
Kidal Region (Bambara: ߞߌߘߊߟ ߘߌߣߋߖߊ tr. Kidal Dineja) the eighth administrative region of Mali, covering 151,450 square kilometres or 58,480 square miles. This area was formerly part of Gao Region, but was created as a separate region in 1991. It is located in the north of the country. It was under the control of different armed movements such as the Ansar Dine and MNLA until January 2013, when French forces liberated the region. The Region's administrative capital is the town of Kidal.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kidal Region” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.