Historical regions of Mali

thumb|upright=1.35|The Mali Empire in 1337, including the location of the Bambuk, Bure, Lobi, and Akan Goldfields

thumb|right|200px|The Wassoulou region of West Africa

Khasso or Xaaso is a region and former West African kingdom of the 17th to 19th centuries, occupying territory in what is today the Kayes Region of Mali. From the 17th to 19th centuries, its capital was at Medina until its fall.

Liptako is an historic region of West Africa. It today falls in eastern Burkina Faso, southwestern Niger and a small portion of southeast central Mali. A hilly region beginning on the right back of the Niger river, Liptako is usually associated with the Liptako Emirate, an early 19th-century Fulani Islamic state, founded by Brahima Saidu. A modern remnant of the emirate continues to exist as a non-sovereign monarchy. The current emir, Ousmane Amirou Dicko, lives in Dori.

Guidimé is a rural commune in the Cercle of Yélimané in the Kayes Region of western Mali. The commune includes twelve villages. The administrative center (chef-lieu) is the town of Yélimané. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 44,019. thumb|left|An 1892 map of Guidioume Guidimé (sometimes spelled Guidioume or Gidyume) is named after a historical dyamare (chiefdom or confederacy). It became a canton under the French colonial regime, then a commune in the early 1990s, with the traditional elective monarchy transitioning into an elective chef de canton and then mayor of the commune

Beledougou (fr. Bélédougou) is an historic region of the pre-colonial Bambara Empire in today's central Mali. In the Bambara language the name literally means "County of the gravel".