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 54,453 in the 2009 census.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Timbuktu
- Type: City with 36,000 residents
- Description: city in Mali
- Categories: urban area and locality
- Location: Timbuktu, Mali, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.7719° or 16° 46' 19" northLongitude
-3.0087° or 3° 0' 31" westPopulation
36,000Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)IATA airport code
TOMUnited Nations Location Code
ML TOMOpen Location Code
7C8RQXCR+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 89381749OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2449067Wikidata ID
Q9427Timbuktu Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Tin Buktu
- Afrikaans: Timboektoe
- Arabic: Timbuktu
- Arabic: تمبكتو
- Arabic: تمبوكتو
- Arabic: تنبكت
- Arabic: تنبكتو
- Arabic: تنبوكتو
- Arabic: تومبوكتو
- Arabic: تُمْبُكْتُو
- Arabic: مدينة تمبكتو
- Arabic: منطقة تومبوكتو
- Aragonese: Timbuktú
- Armenian: Տոմբուկտու
- Asturian: Tombuctú
- Avaric: Tumbuktu
- Azerbaijani: Timbuktu
- Bambara: Timbuktu
- Bambara: Tumutu
- Basque: Timbuktu
- Basque: Tonbuktu
- Belarusian: Тамбукту
- Belarusian: Тымбукту
- Bengali: টিম্বুকতু
- Bosnian: Timbuktu
- Breton: Timbuktu
- Breton: Tombouktou
- Bulgarian: Тимбукту
- Catalan: Timbuctu
- Catalan: Timbuctú
- 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
- English: Timbuctoo
- English: Timbuktoo
- English: Tombouctou
- English: Tumbutu
- 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: टिम्बकटू
- Hungarian: Timbuktu
- Icelandic: Timbúktú
- Ido: Timbuktu
- Indonesian: Timbuktu
- Interlingue: Timbuktu
- Irish: Timbeactú
- Italian: Timbuctù
- Japanese: ティンブクトゥ
- Japanese: トンブクトゥ
- Javanese: Timbuktu
- Kabyle: Timbuktu
- Kannada: ಟಿಂಬಕ್ಟು
- Kannada: ಟಿಂಬಕ್ಟೂ
- Kazakh: 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
- N'Ko: ߕߎ߲ߓߎߞߑߕߎ߫
- N'Ko: ߕߎ߲ߓߕߎ
- N'Ko: ߕߡߎߕߎ߫
- Nepali: तिमबुक्तु
- Northern Frisian: Timbuktu
- Norwegian: Timbuktu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Timbuktu
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Timbuktu
- Occitan (post 1500): Timboctó
- Pampanga: Timbuktu
- Panjabi: ਤਿੰਬਕਤੂ
- Persian: تمبوکتو
- Persian: تمبکتو
- Persian: تیمبوکتو
- Polish: Timbuktu
- Portuguese: Timbouctou
- Portuguese: Timbuktu
- Portuguese: Tombuctu
- Romanian: Tombouctou
- Russian: Тимбукту
- Russian: Томбукту
- Scots: Timbuktu
- Scottish Gaelic: Tiombuctu
- Serbian: Тимбукту
- Serbo-Croatian: Timbuktu
- Sicilian: Timbuctù
- Silesian: Timbuktu
- Sinhala: ටිම්බක්ටු
- Slovak: Timbuktu
- Slovenian: 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
- Tagalog: Timbuktu
- Tamil: திம்பக்து
- 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
- Timboctú
- Tombutu
Other Places Named Timbuktu
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Timbuktu. Photo: upyernoz, CC BY 3.0.