Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Mali?

A) Bamako

B) Timbuktu

C) Gao

D) Mopti

Answer · why

A) Bamako

Bamako was only a village before French colonisers made it their capital; today it holds more than four million people, far ahead of any other Malian ...

Q 02/05

What currency does Mali use?

A) Malian dinar

B) Malian franc

C) Sahel shilling

D) CFA franc

Answer · why

D) CFA franc

CFA franc: Mali quit the franc zone in 1962 to print its own money as a mark of sovereignty, then returned to the shared West African currency in 1984...

Q 03/05

Which two great rivers flow through southern Mali?

A) The Congo and the Volta

B) The Nile and the Niger

C) The Niger and the Senegal

D) The Gambia and the Benue

Answer · why

C) The Niger and the Senegal

The Niger and the Senegal: each year the Niger's flood spreads into a great inland delta in the middle of the country, and herders and fishermen move ...

Q 04/05

Which country borders Mali to the north?

A) Libya

B) Algeria

C) Morocco

D) Chad

Answer · why

B) Algeria

Algeria, across the Saharan frontier, played peacemaker in Mali's northern war: its capital hosted the talks that led to a 2015 peace accord between t...

Q 05/05

About nine in ten Malians live in which part of Mali?

A) North

B) East

C) South

D) West

Answer · why

C) South

South: the Saharan north covers more than half the country but holds few people, so most Malians live in the wetter southern regions, where crops can ...