Bandiagara

Bandiagara
Commune and town
Bandiagara is located in Mali
Bandiagara
Bandiagara
Location in Mali
Coordinates: 14°21′0″N 3°36′40″W / 14.35000°N 3.61111°W / 14.35000; -3.61111
Country Mali
RegionMopti Region
CercleBandiagara Cercle
Elevation
392 m (1,286 ft)
Population
 (2009 census)[1]
 • Total25,564
Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)

Bandiagara (French pronunciation: [bɑ̃djaɡaʁa]) is a small town and urban commune in the Mopti Region of Mali. The name translates roughly to "large eating bowl"—referring to the communal bowl meals are served in. Mainly on its Bandiagara Escarpment it has about 2,000 speakers of the vibrant Bangime language,[2] an isolate used mainly as an anti-language; it has the highest point of the country.

Bandiagara is 65 km east-southeast of Mopti. A seasonal river, the Yamé, flows in a northeasterly direction through the town. The population includes a number of different ethnic groups including Dogons, Fulani and Bambaras.[3]

  1. ^ Resultats Provisoires RGPH 2009 (Région de Mopti) (PDF) (in French), République de Mali: Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-27.
  2. ^ Moran, Steven; Forkel, Robert; Heath, Jeffrey, eds. (2016). "Bandiagara". dogonlanguages.org. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  3. ^ *Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Urbaine de Bandiagara 2006-2010 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-26, retrieved 2012-04-24.