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Kléla

commune of Mali

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2022
Entity authorityQ256623 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kléla is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Sikasso in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The commune covers an area of 786 square kilometers and includes the town and 13 villages. In the 2009 census it had a population of 31,334. The town of Kléla is 43 km north of Sikasso.

References

External links

Plan de Sécurité Alimentaire Commune Rurale de Kléla 2006-2010 (PDF) (in French), Commissariat à la Sécurité Alimentaire, République du Mali, USAID-Mali, 2006, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-02, retrieved 2012-09-09.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kléla” as commune of Mali. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2006, 2010, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kléla, commune and Mali can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune of Mali. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q256623. Authority coordinates are 11.689, -5.662. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2006, 2010 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kléla” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.