1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mali
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bamako—4,227,569, Africa/Bamako, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bamako is GeoNames ID 2460596. Its recorded administrative path is Bamako → Mali, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Bamako occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-02-18; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Bamako ranks 79 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Mali entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 16. Its 4,227,569 population value is 1.00 times the 4,227,569 median for the country cohort and 4.68 times the 902,588 regional median. Bamako is rank 1 among the 1 selected Mali entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Bamako's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bamako's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bobo-Dioulasso at 430.786 km with 904,920 recorded people; Bouaké at 634.47 km with 832,371 recorded people; Ouagadougou at 699.807 km with 2,415,266 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 269.021 km. Compared with Bobo-Dioulasso, Bamako's recorded population is 4.67 times as large. Against Bamako, Bobo-Dioulasso follows Province du Houet → Hauts-Bassins → Burkina Faso in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Burkina Faso cohort rather than Mali, uses Africa/Ouagadougou instead of Africa/Bamako, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Bamako's. Against Bamako, Bouaké follows Vallee du Bandama District → Côte d’Ivoire in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Côte d’Ivoire cohort rather than Mali, uses Africa/Abidjan instead of Africa/Bamako, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Bamako's. Against Bamako, Ouagadougou follows Kadiogo Province → Centre → Burkina Faso in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Burkina Faso cohort rather than Mali, uses Africa/Ouagadougou instead of Africa/Bamako, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is below Bamako's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,166 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bamako's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2460596, the coordinate pair 12.6092 / 7.9752, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2362344 at 430.786 km bind Bamako to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bamako's reference point is 12.6092° north and 7.9752° west. The IANA identifier Africa/Bamako is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Bamako's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Bamako's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bamako's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bamako, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Bamako's closest other entries in this atlas are Bobo-Dioulasso (430.786 km), Bouaké (634.47 km), Ouagadougou (699.807 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-18; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.