Tembakounda

Tembakounda is the location of the source of the Niger River, West Africa's longest river, which eventually empties at the Niger Delta into the Gulf of Guinea 4180 km (2600 miles) distant.cite web|last=Dillon|first=Andrew|title=Child Labor and Schooling Responses to Production and Health Shocks in Northern Mali|url=http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asd34/JMP_ADillon_11_15.pdf|date=2007-11|publisher=Cornell University Department of Applied Economics and Management and International Food Policy Research Institute|accessdate=2008-08-04] Tembakounda is in the Djallon Mountains, low mountains rising above the plateau area of the Guinean highlands known as Fouta Djallon.

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