Timbuktu

Music from Timbuktu

No verified artist from here has shared music with us yet. That is a gap somebody local can close — not something we will fill with music from somewhere else and call it Timbuktu.

Pick a song, write a note, and send it to someone as a musical postcard from Timbuktu. Every TimTim.Live Originals song is free to send.

How much is known about here

14%of what we hope to know about Timbuktu

• Place facts100%
• Local names0%
• Nearby places88%
• Music0%
• Local knowledge0%
• Memories0%
• Places to go0%

Almost nothing is recorded about Timbuktu yet, so anything you add here counts for 2× what it would in a well-documented city. The places the internet ignores are the ones worth writing down.

Questions about Timbuktu

Where is Timbuktu?

Timbuktu is a city in Tombouctou, Mali.

How many people live in Timbuktu?

About 84,208 people, according to the GeoNames dataset this page draws on. Population figures for smaller places are estimates and can be out of date.

What time zone is Timbuktu in?

Timbuktu uses the Africa/Bamako time zone.

What are the coordinates of Timbuktu?

16.7735, -3.0074.

What you can do for Timbuktu

Everything below is worth 2× here, because almost nothing is known about this place yet. The emptier a place, the more a contribution to it is worth.

Anyone can do these, right now

• Collect this place's stamp

  It goes in your passport.

  +2

• Send a musical postcard from here

  +4

• Share a song from here with someone

  Worth more once they actually listen.

  +10

• Check a neighbour's contribution

  Checks are what publish anything.

  +40

If you know Timbuktu

These are what the page is missing. Every one of them waits for 2 neighbours to confirm it before it appears — and before it pays.

• Share a memory of this place

  What it was like. Nobody can add this but the people who were here.

  +50

• Add something only a local would know

  The place people go, the thing visitors never find.

  +50

• Tell us about music from here

  The songs, the players, the rhythms that belong to this place.

  +50

• Add somewhere to eat, drink or hear music

  Somewhere real, that someone here would actually recommend.

  +50

• Tell us how this place's name is really said

  The local name, and how to say it.

  +30

Timbuktu through the years

Nobody has shared a memory of Timbuktu yet. Every decade below is still empty — if you were here for any of them, you know something this page does not.

1. 2020sWere you here in the 2020s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
2. 2010sWere you here in the 2010s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
3. 2000sWere you here in the 2000s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
4. 1990sWere you here in the 1990s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
5. 1980sWere you here in the 1980s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
6. 1970sWere you here in the 1970s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
7. 1960sWere you here in the 1960s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
8. 1950sWere you here in the 1950s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
9. 1940sWere you here in the 1940s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.