Kati is an urban commune and the largest town in Mali's Koulikoro Region, situated 15 kilometres northwest of Bamako on the Dakar-Niger Railway. The 2009 census counted 114,983 residents in the commune. In the early 17th century it was part of a kingdom ruled by the Diara family and based in Nyamina, and it was almost uninhabited when the French arrived in 1880. Kati was the site of Camp Gallieni, which garrisoned the 2nd Regiment of Senegalese Tirailleurs, and after independence the Malian Army founded a military school at the base. It is the capital of the cercle of Kati, a garrison city with both a military and a civil hospital, and a thriving market town with an important weekly cattle market. Its people speak mainly Bambara, and the town is twinned with Puteaux in France and Erfurt in Germany. Its climate is tropical wet and dry.
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population 130,254
2. Mali (Wikipedia)
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is a landlocked country in West Africa
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Climate section
Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as tropical wet and dry (Aw)
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is an urban commune and the largest town in Mali's Koulikoro Region
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is an urban commune and the largest town in Mali's Koulikoro Region
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