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City and urban commune in Sikasso, Mali

Sikasso

Sikasso is a city in the south of Mali and the capital of the Sikasso Cercle and the Sikasso Region.

Sikasso
Sikasso · Renninrebel (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The place

Sikasso is a city in the south of Mali and the capital of the Sikasso Cercle and the Sikasso Region. It is Mali's second largest city with 225,753 residents in the 2009 census. The city is a large centre and trading port, and was the capital of the Kénédougou Kingdom between 1877 and 1898.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sikasso

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Sikasso

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sikasso, French: Diocèse catholique romain de Sikasso) is a diocese located in the city of Sikasso in the ecclesiastical province of Bamako in Mali.

    800 m · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stade Babemba Traoré

    Stade Babemba Traoré is a multi-use stadium in Sikasso, Mali. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    3.6 km · building in Mali · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Some touristic sites:

  1. 01
    The Mamelon

    Located in the city centre, the Mamelon hill used to be a sacred site of the Kénédougou kings.

From Wikivoyage: Sikasso, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Sikasso

Airports
Bobo Dioulasso (BOY), 147 km · Modibo Keita (BKO), 283 km
Stations
Sikasso Airport, 4.4 km
  • Bamako → Sikasso
    289 km · quickest by road, 10h 32m · $28–39
  • Timbuktu → Sikasso
    671 km · quickest by air, 11h 39m · $510–740
  • Bobo Dioulasso → Sikasso
    150 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · $14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sikasso

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sikasso. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    PríncipeST

    7 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,802 km
  2. 02
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,196 km
  3. 03
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,206 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,653 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,935 km

If you know how people move in Sikasso – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.