Ibn Battuta traveled extensively over about 30 years, covering much of Africa, Asia, and parts of Europe. His travels included:
- North Africa: Tangier (Morocco), Algiers (Algeria), Tunis (Tunisia), Tripoli (Libya), Alexandria and Cairo (Egypt)
- The Arabian Peninsula: Mecca and Medina (Saudi Arabia), Damascus (Syria)
- East Africa: Aden (Yemen), Mogadishu, Malindi, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Kilwa (Tanzania)
- The Middle East and Persia: Iraq, Iran including Isfahan and Shiraz, Azerbaijan, Baghdad
- Anatolia (Turkey), across the Black Sea to Crimea, the northern Caucasus, and Saray (capital of Golden Horde)
- Central Asia: Bukhara, Samarkand, Balkh
- Indian Subcontinent: Delhi and surrounding areas (worked as a judge)
- The Maldives and Sri Lanka
- The Iberian Peninsula (Spain)
- Parts of China as predicted by a holy man in Alexandria
He embarked on the Hajj pilgrimage in 1325 and from there explored a vast range of Muslim and some non-Muslim lands, often traveling on land and by sea for trade, scholarship, and diplomacy. His journeys took him as far north as Bolghar (Tatarstan), as far south as Kilwa in East Africa, as far east as China, and as far west as Spain.
