Sansanding
Sign in to saveSansanding, sometimes called Sinsani, is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Ségou in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. The commune includes the town and 17 of the surrounding villages in an area of 315 square kilometers. In the 2009 census it had a population of 23,109. The town sits on the left (north) bank of the River Niger about 50 km downstream from Ségou.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sansanding is referenced by 158 other articles, and connects out to Ségou, Mali and time zone.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Communes of Ségou Region and Marka trade towns.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sansanding
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mali
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Mali
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Ségou Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Cercle
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ségou Cercle
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 315
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2009 census
- Settlement.population_total
- 23109
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank1
- Soninke, Marka
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Mali
- Country
- Mali
- Located in
- Ségou Region
- Area
- 315
- Elevation
- 258
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Encyclopedic overview
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Sansanding, sometimes called Sinsani, is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Ségou in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. The commune includes the town and 17 of the surrounding villages in an area of 315 square kilometers. In the 2009 census it had a population of 23,109. The town sits on the left (north) bank of the River Niger about 50 km downstream from Ségou.
The commune lies entirely to the north of the river and is crossed, from west to east, by the Canal Macina and the Fala de Boky-Wéré which carry water from the Niger to the rice polders north of Macina. The canal and Fala form part of the Office du Niger irrigation scheme.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sansanding” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations
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