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Mali (mä′lē)

country in W Africa, south & east of Mauritania: a former French territory ( French Sudan), it joined the French Community as the autonomous Sudanese Republic (1958); it joined with Senegal to form the Mali Federation (1959); union dissolved & full independence proclaimed (1960): 478,841 sq mi (1,240,193 sq km); pop. 9,820,000; cap. Bamako