Timbuktu

Timbuktu is a Tuareg city on the Niger River in the country of . Its long history as a trading outpost that linked black Africa below the Sahara Desert with Berber and Islamic traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, has given it a fabled status.
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  • Type: City with 36,000 residents
  • Description: city in Mali
  • Also known as: “Timboctú”, “Timbuctoo”, “Timbuktoo”, “Tombouctou”, “Tombutu”, and “Tumbutu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gordon Laing House.

Monument
Photo: upyernoz, CC BY 2.0.
is a monument.

Timbuktu

Latitude
16.7719° or 16° 46′ 19″ north
Longitude
-3.0087° or 3° 0′ 31″ west
Population
36,000
Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)
IATA airport code
TOM
United Nations Location Code
ML TOM
Open location code
7C8RQXCR+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 89381749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2449067
Wiki­data ID
Q9427
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Timbuktu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Timboektoe”
  • Amharic: “ቲምቡክቱ”
  • Arabic: “تمبكتو”
  • Arabic: “تُمْبُكْتُو”
  • Arabic: “تمبوكتو”
  • Arabic: “تنبكت”
  • Arabic: “تنبكتو”
  • Arabic: “تنبوكتو”
  • Arabic: “تومبوكتو”
  • Arabic: “مدينة تمبكتو”
  • Arabic: “منطقة تومبوكتو”
  • Aragonese: “Timbuktú”
  • Armenian: “Տոմբուկտու”
  • Asturian: “Tombuctú”
  • Azerbaijani: “Timbuktu”
  • Bambara: “Timbuktu”
  • Bambara: “Tumutu”
  • Basque: “Timbuktu”
  • Basque: “Tonbuktu”
  • Belarusian: “Тамбукту”
  • Belarusian: “Тымбукту”
  • Bengali: “টিম্বাক্টু”
  • Bengali: “তিমবুকতু”
  • Bosnian: “Timbuktu”
  • Breton: “Timbuktu”
  • Breton: “Tombouktou”
  • Bulgarian: “Тимбукту”
  • Catalan: “Timbuctu”
  • Catalan: “Timbuctú”
  • Catalan: “Tombuctú”
  • Cebuano: “Timbuktu”
  • Chinese: “Tombouctou”
  • Chinese: “廷巴克图”
  • Chinese: “廷布克圖”
  • Chinese: “添卜土”
  • Chinese: “湯瀑圖”
  • Chinese: “通布克圖”
  • Chinese: “通布图”
  • Chinese: “通布圖”
  • Croatian: “Timbuktu”
  • Czech: “Timbuktu”
  • Dagbani: “Timbuktu”
  • Danish: “Timbuktu”
  • Dutch: “Timboektoe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تمبكتو”
  • Esperanto: “Timbuktuo”
  • Estonian: “Timbuktu”
  • Estonian: “Tombouctou”
  • Fanti: “Timbuktu”
  • Farefare: “Timbuktu”
  • Finnish: “Timbuktu”
  • French: “Tombouctou”
  • Galician: “Tombouctou”
  • Georgian: “ტომბუქტუ”
  • German: “Timbuktu”
  • Greek: “Τιμπουκτού”
  • Gujarati: “ટિમ્બક્ટુ”
  • Hausa: “Timbuktu”
  • Hebrew: “טימבוקטו”
  • Hindi: “टिंबक्टू”
  • Hindi: “टिम्बकटू”
  • Hungarian: “Timbuktu”
  • Icelandic: “Timbúktú”
  • Ido: “Timbuktu”
  • Indonesian: “Timbuktu”
  • Interlingue: “Timbuktu”
  • Irish: “Timbeactú”
  • Italian: “Timbuctù”
  • Italian: “Tombouctou”
  • Japanese: “ティンブクトゥ”
  • Japanese: “トゥンブクトゥ”
  • Japanese: “トンブクトゥ”
  • Javanese: “Timbuktu”
  • Kabyle: “Timbuktu”
  • Kabyle: “Tin Buktu”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿಂಬಕ್ಟು”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿಂಬಕ್ಟೂ”
  • Kazakh: “Тимбукту”
  • Kazakh: “Томбукту”
  • Kirghiz: “Тимбукту”
  • Korean: “팀북투”
  • Kotava: “Tumbuktu”
  • Ladino: “Timbuktu”
  • Latin: “Tombutum”
  • Latvian: “Timbuktu”
  • Latvian: “Tombuktu”
  • Limburgan: “Timboektoe”
  • Literary Chinese: “廷巴克圖”
  • Lithuanian: “Timbuktu”
  • Low German: “Timbuktu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Timbuktu”
  • Maithili: “तिमबुक्तु”
  • Malagasy: “Timbuktu”
  • Malagasy: “Tombouctou”
  • Malay: “Timbuktu”
  • Malay: “Tombouctou”
  • Malayalam: “റ്റിംബക്റ്റൂ”
  • Maltese: “Timbuktu”
  • Marathi: “टिंबक्टू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tombouctou”
  • Moksha: “Тимбукту”
  • Mossi: “Timbuktu”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߎ߲ߓߎߞߑߕߎ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߎ߲ߓߕߎ”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߡߎߕߎ߫”
  • Nepali: “तिमबुक्तु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Timbuktu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Timbuktu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Timbuktu”
  • Norwegian: “Timbuktu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Timboctó”
  • Oromo: “Timbuktu”
  • Ossetian: “Тимбукту”
  • Ossetian: “Томбукту”
  • Pampanga: “Timbuktu”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਿੰਬਕਤੂ”
  • Persian: “تمبکتو”
  • Persian: “تمبوکتو”
  • Persian: “تیمبوکتو”
  • Polish: “Timbuktu”
  • Portuguese: “Timbouctou”
  • Portuguese: “Timbuktu”
  • Portuguese: “Tombuctu”
  • Pushto: “ټیمبکتو”
  • Romanian: “Tombouctou”
  • Russian: “Тимбукту”
  • Russian: “Томбукту”
  • Scots: “Timbuktu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tiombuctu”
  • Serbian: “Тимбукту”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Timbuktu”
  • Sicilian: “Timbuctù”
  • Silesian: “Timbuktu”
  • Sindhi: “ٽمبڪٽو”
  • Sinhala: “ටිම්බක්ටු”
  • Slovak: “Timbuktu”
  • Slovenian: “Timbuktu”
  • Somali: “Timbuktu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تیمبوکتو”
  • Spanish: “Timbuctoo”
  • Spanish: “Timbuktoo”
  • Spanish: “Timbuktu”
  • Spanish: “Tombouctou”
  • Spanish: “Tombuctu”
  • Spanish: “Tombuctú”
  • Spanish: “Tumbutu”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵉⵏⴱⵓⴽⵜⵓ”
  • Swahili: “Timbuktu”
  • Swedish: “Timbuktu (regionhuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Timbuktu”
  • Tagalog: “Timbuktu”
  • Tajik: “Тимбукту”
  • Tamil: “திம்பக்து”
  • Tatar: “Тимбукту шәһәре”
  • Tatar: “Тимбукту”
  • Telugu: “టింబక్టు”
  • Thai: “ทิมบักตู”
  • Turkish: “Timbuktu”
  • Twi: “Timbuktu na ɔkyerɛwee”
  • Ukrainian: “Тімбукту”
  • Urdu: “ٹمبکٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Tombuktu”
  • Vietnamese: “Timbuktu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Timbuktu”
  • Welsh: “Tombouctou”
  • Western Frisian: “Timbûktû”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹمبکٹو”
  • Wu Chinese: “廷巴克图”
  • Yiddish: “טימבוקטו”
  • Yoruba: “Timbuktu”
  • Yue Chinese: “廷巴克圖”
  • Yue Chinese: “湯瀑圖”
  • “Timbuctu”

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