The city is the subject of a 1999 documentary film, L'Esprit de Mopti.
Keïta initially worked as a middleman trader, buying fish and rice from Mopti and Dioro and reselling them in Bamako.
Mount Hombori, the highest point in Mali at 1153 meters, is in the Mopti Region, near the city of the same name.
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An airport at Mopti provides air service for the region, while the Niger River provides transportation to Koulikoro and Ségou to the west and Tombouctou and Gao to the east.
French and German grant programmes between 1984 and 1990 enabled news and reporting to expand, with regional stations opening in Ségou (1986), Koulikoro (1989), Sikasso (1990) and Mopti (1993).