Business in Timbuktu (Sahara, Mali)
Transport and Trade in Timbuktu (Mali): UNESCO World Heritage, Niafunk (Mali). Tuareg
and Songhai
The city (commune) of Timbuktu (Tin-Buktu) is the capital of the Timbuktu region of the Republic of
Mali (Trade and Business in West Africa)
- Population of Timbuktu (The city of the 333 Saints): 54,453 inhabitants
- Distance Timbuktu-Bamako: 1,000 kilometres
- Main ethnicities of Timbuktu: Tuareg, Songhai and Arabs
- Timbuktu is on the
Niger River
banks
- Circle: Timbuktu
- Timbuktu is a Saharan city
- Climate of Timbuktu: desert-warm
- Timbuktu International Airport
Mali (Timbuktu)
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- Timbuktu is a UNESCO world heritage site
- Several places classified as a world heritage site by UNESCO
- Mansa Moussa (Emperor of Mand) in the 14th century built the Djingareyber Mosque
- XV century: Timbuktu had 100,000 inhabitants.
- Islamic University of Sankoré (Timbuktu) had 25,000 students
- 1458: Sonni Ali Ber (Songhai Emperor) conquered Timbuktu
- 16th Century: economic prosperity of Timbuktu.
- Trade centre between the Maghreb
and Sudan.
- 1590: end of the Songhai Empire
- Ahmed-Baba Documentation and Research Centre (Manuscripts of Timbuktu)
- 2012: insurrection of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA)
- Intervention of the French Navy (Serval Operation)
Timbuktu region (sixth administrative region of Mali)
The city of Timbuktu is the county capital of the Timbuktu region
- Main economic activities: agriculture and tourism (before the Malian war, 2012)
- Population of the Timbuktu region: 681,691 inhabitants
- Circles of the Timbuktu region: Timbuktu, Diré, Niafunké, Goundam and Gourma-Rharous
- Area of the Timbuktu region: 497,926 km²
- Main language of the Timbuktu region: Tamasheq
- Desert climate
- Contiguous regions: Ségou, Mopti, Gao and Kidal
- Borders:
Algeria (Adrar Wilaya) and
- (Oualata)
Tombuctú (Malí)
Tombouctou (Mali)
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