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Sikasso
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.

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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.

Get in

Getting to Sikasso

The city is 100 km (62 mi) from Mali's border to Cote d'Ivoire and 45 km (28 mi) to Burkina Faso. There are plenty of bus services from the capital Bamako, with SONEF being the largest operator.

See

Worth seeing

Some touristic sites:

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    The Mamelon

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

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Renninrebel (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons.