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Flag of Mali. The national flag of Mali (drapeau national du Mali) is a tricolour with three equal vertical stripes. From the hoist (the place where the flagpole meets the flag) the colours are green, gold, and red, the pan-African colours. The flag of Mali is almost identical to the flag of Guinea, with the exception that the colours are in ...
Mali, [c] officially the Republic of Mali, [d] is a landlocked country in West Africa.It is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over 1,240,192 square kilometres (478,841 sq mi). [9]
Montage of 8 pages (the third to sixth leaves) of the original 1375 Catalan Atlas Detail of the Catalan Atlas, the first compass rose depicted on a map. The Catalan Atlas (Catalan: Atles català, Eastern Catalan: [ˈatləs kətəˈla]) is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s (often conventionally dated 1375), [1] [2] that has been ...
The Empire of Mali reaches its height of power, covering much of Northern West Africa. 1352: Ibn Battuta, Berber scholar, travels across Africa and writes an account of all he sees 1462: Sonni Ali becomes ruler of the Songhai people and goes on to build the Songhai Empire: 1490: The Mali empire is overshadowed by the Songhai Empire 16th century
[10] [120] The lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is generally regarded as the unofficial national flower of Vietnam, [121] as portrayed, for example, on their postage stamps. [122] In Vietnamese tradition, the lotus is regarded as the symbol of purity, commitment and optimism for the future. [10]
A chart of the Russian political system. Russia, by constitution, is a symmetric federal republic with a semi-presidential system, wherein the president is the head of state, [260] and the prime minister is the head of government. [9] It is structured as a multi-party representative democracy, with the federal government composed of three ...
[73] [74] Free education for the poor was officially mandated by the Church in 1179 when it decreed that every cathedral must assign a master to teach boys too poor to pay the regular fee; [75] parishes and monasteries also established free schools teaching at least basic literary skills. With few exceptions, priests and brothers taught locally ...
China, [i] officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), [j] is a country in East Asia.With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population.