Kéniéba Cercle is a subdivision of the
Kayes Region of
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mal ...
. The administrative center (''
chef-lieu
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
'') is the town of
Kéniéba
Kéniéba is a rural commune, small town and seat of Kéniéba Cercle in Mali's Kayes Region, near the Mali–Senegal border. As well as the main town, the commune includes 26 other villages.. In the 2009 census the commune had a population o ...
.
Kéniéba Cercle contains the Malian section of the hilly
Bambouk
Bambouk (sometimes Bambuk or Bambuhu) is a traditional name for the territory in eastern Senegal and western Mali, encompassing the Bambouk Mountains on its eastern edge, the valley of the Faleme River and the hilly country to the east of the riv ...
region, the historic gold mining region of the
Ghana Empire
The Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadou ( ar, غانا) or Awkar, was a West African empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali that existed from c. 300 until 1100. The Empire was founded by the Soninke people, an ...
and the
Mali Empire. Kéniéba Cercle is divided from the Senegalese Bambouk by the valley of the
Falémé River
The Falémé River is a river in West Africa. The Falémé arises in northern Guinea and flows in a north-northeast direction to Mali, forming a short portion of the border between Guinea and Senegal. It turns north and then forms a portion of th ...
.
The ''cercle'' is subdivided into twelve
''communes'':
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Bayé
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Dabia
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Dialafara
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Dombia
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Faléa
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Faraba
Faraba is a village and rural commune in the Cercle of Kéniéba in the Kayes Region of south-western Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi M ...
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Guénégoré
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Kassama
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Kéniéba
Kéniéba is a rural commune, small town and seat of Kéniéba Cercle in Mali's Kayes Region, near the Mali–Senegal border. As well as the main town, the commune includes 26 other villages.. In the 2009 census the commune had a population o ...
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Kroukoto
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Sagalo
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Sitakilly
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Cercles of Mali