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Mali

Mali is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Africa. UN Tourism counted 217,000 international arrivals there in 2019, rarer than 87% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Prism.

Mali’s stamp in Globestamp
Prism · 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year
International arrivals
217,000in 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
173rd of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Prismrarer than 87%
Area
1,256,814 km² (485,258 sq mi)
Population
19.7 millionNatural Earth estimate
Regions
9in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
5with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
4on Globestamp’s list

Does Mali count as a country?

Yes. Mali is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Mali?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Mali
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Mali stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Mali’s is Prism: the full spectrum with glints, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year. With 217,000 international arrivals in 2019, Mali is rarer than 87% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Mali

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Mali when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Mali you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Mali, from 4 World Heritage Sites.

World Heritage Sites 4

Timbuktu (1988) · Tomb of Askia (2004) · Bandiagara Escarpment (1989) · Old Towns of Djenné (1988). On the bucket list →

Famous landmarks 1

Great Mosque of Djenné. On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Bamako1,494,000
Sikasso225,753
Ségou122,952
Gao116,967
Mopti108,456
Koutiala104,927
Kayes77,207
Timbuktu68,872

Airports

Mali has 5 airports with scheduled flights, 2 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

9 regions to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Mali into 9 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 9

Bamako · Gao · Kayes · Kidal · Koulikoro · Mopti · Ségou · Tombouctou · Wassoulou

Questions people ask

Is Mali a country?

Yes. Mali is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Mali a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 217,000 international arrivals in Mali in 2019, the 173rd most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Mali stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Prism, the finish for places with 50,000 to 500,000 visitors a year, rarer than 87% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Mali count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Mali”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Mali

Near Mali

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