Timbuktu
Proper noun
Meaning
A city in central Mali.
(figuratively) Any proverbially distant or remote place.
You can try every shop from here to Timbuktu, but you won't find another one like this.
Synonym: Outer Mongolia
Synonyms
Examples
The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
Salt comes from north, gold from south and silver from the land of Whites, but the Word of God, the famous things, histories and fairy tales, we only find them in Timbuktu.
In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
Sometime between 1328 and 1338 Mossi warriors raided Timbuktu but the Mossi were defeated by Sonni Ali of Songhai at the Battle of Kobi in Mali in 1483.
Ansar Dine, whose stronghold is the historic city of Timbuktu, is a close ally of al Qaeda’s North African wing AQIM, which is also fighting Malian forces backed by French air power.