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Timbuktu (also Tombouctou or Timbuctu) is a Tuareg city on the Niger River in the West African country of Mali.
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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. Combined with its relative inaccessibility, "Timbuktu" has come to be used as a metaphor for exotic, distant lands.Today, Timbuktu is one of the seven regions of Mali and the city itself is the residence of the local governor. It is the sister-city to Djenne and one of the seven holy cities of the Islam.
The city itself is in stark contrast to the rest of the country's cities, because it has more of an Arabic flair than of an African. The streets are made of sand (except one), and one has often to go down to get into the houses, because of the sand which has leveled the streets higher than the entrances of the houses.
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