where is Timbuktu?

Answer 1

Timbuktu, Timbuctu or Timbuctoo (Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu, French: Tombouctou) is a city populated by the Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Moorish people in the West African country of Mali. It is often said to lie on the River Niger, but is actually 15 km north of the river.

Its geographical setting made it a natural meeting point for nearby African populations and nomadic Berber and Arab peoples from the north. Its long history as a trading outpost that linked west Africa with Berber, Arab, and Jewish traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, has given it a fabled status, and in the West it was for long a metaphor for exotic, distant lands: "from here to Timbuktu." Timbuktu's most long-lasting contribution to Islamic and world civilization is scholarship. By at least the fourteenth century, important books were written and copied in Timbuktu, establishing the city as the center of a significant written tradition in Africa.

Answer 2

Timbuktu shows up as “Tombouctou” on my National Geographic map. That’s from the French spelling used today. It also shows up spelled as “Timbuctu” and “Timbuctoo.”

It's in the northwest African country of Mali. Mali is landlocked. The country to the north of it is Algeria, which is on the Mediterranean, across from Spain. The country to the west, on the Atlantic Ocean, is Mauritania. The country of Niger borders the east and 4 smaller countries are along the southern border (Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast or Cote d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso).

Timbuktu is one of the 8 regions (states) of Mali, which are named after their principal city, and is the largest region, comprising the entire northwest of the country.

If you look at a map, you’ll see that Timbuktu sits in a unique spot. It’s on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert and on the northernmost section of the Niger River, where it bends and flows south again. Timbuktu is actually a few miles north of the river and is connected to it by canals.

This made the city an important end point for major trade routes. Nomadic tribes and trans-Saharan caravans could meet with traders who had a major river to transport goods to/from a sea port.

This aspect of the city, as a far distant destination for trade & supplies, is what gave rise to the phrase “From here to Timbuktu.”

Answer 3

TOday the country is called MALI in Sahara, Africa
just south of Morrocco and West Sahara

Answer 4

in the west african country of Mali

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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