Timbuktu
Tombouctou Region or Timbuktu Region is one of the administrative regions of Mali. For administrative purposes, the region is subdivided into five cercles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Timbuktu
Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali, situated 20 kilometres north of the Niger River. It is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali, having a population of 32,460 in the 2018 census.
Goundam
Goundam is a commune and town in north central Mali, in the Tombouctou Region. It is the capital of Goundam Cercle, one of five subdivisions of the Region.Timbuktu
- Type: region of Mali with 975,000 residents
- Description: region of Mali
- Also known as: “Region VI”, “Sixth Region”, “Timbuktu Region”, “Tombouctou”, and “Tombouctou Region”
- Location: Mali, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Timbuktu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تمبكتو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة تمبكتو”
- Arabic: “منطقة تمبكتو”
- Arabic: “منطقة تومبكتو”
- Arabic: “منطقه تمبكتو”
- Azerbaijani: “Tombuktu”
- Bambara: “Tumutu”
- Basque: “Timbuktu eskualdea”
- Basque: “Timbuktuko eskualdea”
- Basque: “Tombouctou eskualdea”
- Basque: “Tonbuktu eskualdea”
- Bengali: “তম্বুকতু অঞ্চল”
- Catalan: “regió de Timbuctu”
- Catalan: “Regió de Timbuctu”
- Catalan: “Regió de Tombouctou”
- Cebuano: “Tombouctou Region”
- Chinese: “Tombouctou Khu”
- Chinese: “廷巴克图区”
- Chinese: “通布图区”
- Chinese: “通布图地区”
- Chinese: “通布圖區”
- Danish: “Timbuktu”
- Dutch: “regio Timboektoe”
- Dutch: “Regio Timboektoe”
- Dutch: “Timboektoe”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Timbuktu”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Timbuktuo”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Tombouctou”
- Estonian: “Timbuktu piirkond”
- Estonian: “Tombouctou piirkond”
- Finnish: “Timbuktun alue”
- French: “région de Tombouctou”
- French: “Région de Tombouctou”
- Georgian: “ტომბუქტუს რეგიონი”
- German: “ML-6”
- German: “Region Timbuktu”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Τομπουκτού”
- Greek: “Τομπουκτού”
- Gujarati: “ટોમ્બૌક્ટોઉ પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז טימבוקטו”
- Hindi: “टॉम्बौक्टाउ क्षेत्र”
- Indonesian: “Region Timbuktu”
- Irish: “Réigiún Thimbeactú”
- Italian: “Regione di Timbuctu”
- Italian: “regione di Timbuctù”
- Italian: “Regione di Timbuctù”
- Italian: “Regione di Timbuktu”
- Italian: “Tombouctou”
- Japanese: “トンブクトゥ州”
- Kannada: “ಟೊಂಬೌಕ್ಟೌ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “통북투주”
- Korean: “팀북투 주”
- Latvian: “Tombuktu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Tombuktu regionas”
- Low German: “Region Timbuktu”
- Malay: “Tombouctou Region”
- Maltese: “Reġjun ta‘ Timbuktu”
- Marathi: “टॉम्बॉक्टौ प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tombouctou Khu”
- Northern Frisian: “Timbuktu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Timbuktu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tombouctou”
- Norwegian: “Timbuktu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “region de Timboctó”
- Persian: “استان تمبوکتو”
- Persian: “تمبکتو”
- Persian: “تومبوکتو”
- Persian: “تیمبوکتو”
- Polish: “Region Timbuktu”
- Portuguese: “Tombouctou”
- Portuguese: “Tombuctu”
- Pushto: “تومبوکتو”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Tombouctou”
- Russian: “Томбукту”
- Sinhala: “ටෝම්බෝක්ටු කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “Regija Timbuktu”
- South Azerbaijani: “تومبوکتو اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Región de Tombuctú”
- Spanish: “Tombuctu”
- Spanish: “Tombuctú”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Timbuktu”
- Swedish: “Timbuktu”
- Tamil: “டாம்போவுக்டோக்கு பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Томбукту төбәге”
- Telugu: “టాంబోక్టోవ్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขตตงบุกตู”
- Thai: “แคว้นตงบุกตู”
- Thai: “แคว้นทิมบักตู”
- Turkish: “Timbuktu Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Tombouctou Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Тімбукту”
- Urdu: “Tombouctou Region”
- Urdu: “ریجن ٹمبکٹو”
- Urdu: “علاقہ ٹمبکٹو”
- Uzbek: “Tombouctou Region”
- Venetian: “Timbuctù”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Tombouctou”
- Welsh: “Rhanbarth Tombouctou”
- Western Frisian: “Regio Timbûktû”
- Wu Chinese: “通布图区”
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