Can I get some advice on city placements in my save?

[Ultimate_Waffle]

I've never been particular good at city placement even during my vanilla Civ 4 days. Could someone please take a look at my save and do a dot map? Please also tell me, if it were your game, where your first six cities would be? Followed by the next twelve cities? Thank you very much.

EDIT: The Mali empire to my South has been destroyed by barbarians, so that's sort of out of my way now.

 

[Ultimate_Waffle]

Here's a more recent save file with everywhere explored. Getting closer to being able to settle cities now.