Wum
Wum is a town and commune in Cameroon. It is the capital of Menchum division in the Northwest Province.
Wum
- Type: Town with 42,500 residents
- Description: commune of Cameroon
- Categories: city, commune of Cameroon, and locality
- Location: North-West Region, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.3878° or 6° 23′ 16″ north
Longitude
10.07664° or 10° 4′ 36″ east
Population
42,500
Elevation
1,055 metres (3,461 feet)
Open location code
6FRG93QG+4M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Wum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ووم”
- Asturian: “Wum”
- Belarusian: “Вум”
- Cebuano: “Wum”
- Chinese: “Wum”
- Chinese: “武姆”
- Dutch: “Wum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ووم”
- French: “Wum”
- German: “Wum”
- Hebrew: “וום”
- Italian: “Wum”
- Japanese: “ウム”
- Malay: “Wum, Cameroon”
- Malay: “Wum”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wum”
- Polish: “Wum”
- Portuguese: “Wum”
- Romanian: “Wum”
- Spanish: “Wum”
- Swahili: “Wum”
- Swedish: “Wum”
- Urdu: “ووم”
- Yoruba: “Wum”
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