“Bassari Country” is a convenient name for a much broader cultural landscape in southeastern Senegal, near the borders with Guinea and Mali. UNESCO inscribed it in 2012 under the title Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes. The serial property is not one village or a conventional attraction with a single gate: it comprises three geographically separate areas associated with Bassari–Salémata, Bedik–Bandafassi and Fula–Dindéfello communities.
The listed property covers 50,309 hectares, with a buffer zone of 240,756 hectares. UNESCO describes a region of contrasting terrain: alluvial plains and gently rolling land to the north, rising toward the hills and mountains of the Fouta Djallon foothills in the south. Terraces, rice fields, villages, hamlets and archaeological remains are part of the landscape. The cultural value lies in how communities have adapted ways of living to this environment over generations.