Mali, with its population of about fourteen and a half million, is located in west Africa and shares borders with Algeria to its north, Niger to its east, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast to its south, Guinea to its south-west and Senegal and Mauritania to its west.

In size Mali is approximately 1000 miles from north to south, and 1050 miles from east to west and has has three main zones, the Saharan one in the north, the central semi arid Shahelian one and the Sudanese zone in the south where the land is more fertile being fed by the Niger River (left) and the Senegal River.

The countryside of Mali is perhaps best known for the Niger River, the long sought after city of Timbuktu, and, of course the Dogon Tribe who according to legend, had contact with a fish like race from Sirius called the Nommo. This video of the Mali countryside gives some insight into the nature of the land there.