Tembakounda

{{Short description|River source in the Djallon Mountains, Guinea}}

{{distinguish|text=Tambacounda, Senegal}}

Tembakounda in Guinea 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 {{convert|4180|km|mi|abbr=on}} distant.{{cite web|last=Dillon|first=Andrew|title=Child Labor and Schooling Responses to Production and Health Shocks in Northern Mali|url=http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/dp/ifpridp00755.pdf|date=November 2007|publisher=Cornell University Department of Applied Economics and Management and International Food Policy Research Institute|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709204015/http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/dp/ifpridp00755.pdf|archivedate=2009-07-09}} Tembakounda is in the Djallon Mountains, low mountains rising above the plateau area of the Guinea Highlands known as Fouta Djallon.