Timbuktu (disambiguation)

Timbuktu is a city in Mali.

Timbuktu and similarly spelled words may also refer to:

Places

Timbuktu is a common placeholder name for a distant and remote location. Specific locations include:

• Timbuctoo, California, a ghost town and unincorporated community in Yuba County, California, U.S.
• Timbuctoo, New Jersey, a small settlement along Rancocas Creek in Westampton Township, New Jersey, U.S.
• Timbuctoo, New York, a failed farming community of Black people in the Adirondacks.
• Timbuktu (crater), an old crater on Mars
• Timbuktu, Oregon, a historic locale in Washington County, Oregon, U.S.
• Tombouctou Region, administrative subdivision of Mali

People

• Timbuktu (hip hop artist), Canadian hip hop artist
• Timbuktu (musician), Swedish rapper, reggae and hip hop artist

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

• Timboektoe (2007), a Dutch youth film
• Timbuctoo (film), a 1933 British film
• Timbuktu (1959 film), a 1959 film with Victor Mature
• Timbuktu, a 2004 film directed by Alan Gilsenan
• Timbuktu (2014 film), a 2014 French-Mauritanian film

Literature

• Timbuctoo, an 1829 poem by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Timbuctoo (novel), a 2012 novel by Tahir Shah
• Timbuctoo, a series of children books by Roger Hargreaves, based on Mr Men and Little Miss, first published in 1978
• Timbuktu (novella), a book written by Paul Auster
• The Train to Timbuctoo, a 1951 picture book by Margaret Wise Brown

Music

• Timbuktu!, a musical play

Brands and enterprises

• Timbuktu (software), a remote control software product
• Timbuk2, a line of messenger bags

See also

• Tombouctou (disambiguation)
• Timbuk 3