Mbam River
The Mbam River is the largest tributary of the Sanaga River in Cameroon. It has a total length of 548 km and has a total drainage basin of 38,000 km2. It flows from the Adamawa Plateau and receives the Kim and Ndjim rivers on its left bank and later the Noun River at its right bank before its confluence with the Sanaga River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: UJung, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Cameroon
- Also known as: “Mbam”
Mbam River
- Categories: river, watercourse, and body of water
- Location: Centre Region, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mbam River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر مبام”
- Asturian: “Ríu Mbam”
- Bulgarian: “Мбам”
- Cebuano: “Mbam”
- Chinese: “姆巴姆河”
- Dutch: “Mbam (vattendrag i Kamerun, Centrumregionen)”
- Dutch: “Mbam River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر مبام”
- French: “Fleuve Mbam”
- French: “Le mbam”
- French: “Mbam”
- German: “Mbam”
- Hausa: “Kogin Mbam”
- Irish: “Abhainn Mbam”
- Italian: “Mbam”
- Japanese: “ムバム川”
- Lithuanian: “Mbamas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mbam”
- Polish: “Mbam”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mbam”
- Russian: “Мбам”
- Spanish: “Río Mbam”
- Swedish: “Mbam”
- Venetian: “Fiume Mbam”
- Welsh: “Afon Mbam”
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