end of Year Geography Quiz, Question 40:

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40. Timbuktu has come to symbolize a romantic, quasi-fantasy place, but it really exists. Where would you find it?

[cullman]

About a mile up the road from where I grew up.

cman

[tandfman]

I think it's somewhere in North Africa, but I've no idea what country.

[cullman]

I believe it was a French colony and part of the Sudanese Republic when I was a kid. That has changed since African Independence during the early 1960s. Thank you Time magazine for the geography lessons. Used to read it every week along with SI.

cman

[mcgato]

Mali

[Helen S]

Just under Timbuk 3?

http://www.timbuk3.com/

[Daisy]

I think it's somewhere in North Africa, but I've no idea what country.

Definitely N. Africa. Possibly near the very south of Algeria?

[Conor Dary]

It is in Mali. Which is just north of Ghana. My brother actually went there once when he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana back in the 70's.

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40. In the West African nation of Mali. It is at the intersection of major north-south and east-west caravan routes, so in its heyday it was almost literally the crossroads of Africa. On the map these days it often carries the French spelling of Tombouctou.

[bambam1729]

Re: end of Year Geography Quiz, Question 40:

40. Timbuktu has come to symbolize a romantic, quasi-fantasy place, but it really exists. Where would you find it?

Tanzania

[bambam1729]

Re: end of Year Geography Quiz, Question 40:

40. Timbuktu has come to symbolize a romantic, quasi-fantasy place, but it really exists. Where would you find it?

Tanzania

Well, since I just logged on and didn't look at any answers, at least this proves I haven't been cheating.