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Timbuktu
     
Timbuktu
a city on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Mali, West Africa, whose correct name is Tombouctou. People sometimes mention Timbuktu as an example of a place that is very far away:
• enough cars to stretch from here to Timbuktu
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