Far North
The Far North Region, also known as the Extreme North Region, is the northernmost and most populous constituent province of the Republic of Cameroon. It borders the North Region to the south, Chad to the east, and Nigeria to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: region of Cameroon with 1,860,000 residents
- Description: region of Cameroon
- Also known as: “Far North Province” and “Far North Region”
- Neighbors: Adamaoua and Northern Cameroon
Far North
- Category: electoral unit
- Location: Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Far North” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشمال الأقصى”
- Arabic: “منطقة أقصى الشمال”
- Asturian: “Rexón del Estremu Norte”
- Asturian: “Rexón Estremu Norte”
- Basque: “Iparralde Urruna (Kamerun)”
- Basque: “Iparralde Urruna”
- Belarusian: “Крайні Паўночны рэгіён”
- Belarusian: “Ускрайні Паўночны рэгіён”
- Bengali: “ফার নর্থ”
- Breton: “Proviñs an norzh pellañ”
- Breton: “Rannvro an Norzh-Pellañ”
- Bulgarian: “Далечен Север”
- Catalan: “Regió de l’Extrem Nord”
- Cebuano: “Far North Region”
- Chinese: “Extrême-Nord Chiu”
- Chinese: “极北区”
- Chinese: “极北省”
- Chinese: “極北區”
- Chinese: “極北省”
- Danish: “Extrême-Nord”
- Danish: “Far North Region”
- Dutch: “Extreme - Nord”
- Dutch: “Extrême - Nord”
- Dutch: “Extreme Nord”
- Dutch: “Extrême Nord”
- Dutch: “Extreme-Nord”
- Dutch: “Extrême-Nord”
- Esperanto: “Ekstreme norda Kameruno”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Ekstrem-Nordo”
- Estonian: “Kaug-Põhjapiirkond”
- Finnish: “Extrême-Nord”
- French: “Extrême-Nord du Cameroun”
- French: “Extreme-Nord”
- French: “Extrême-Nord”
- French: “Province de l’Extreme-Nord”
- French: “Province de l’Extrême-Nord”
- French: “Région de l’Extrême-Nord”
- Galician: “Rexión do Extremo Norte”
- Georgian: “უკიდურესი ჩრდილოეთის რეგიონი”
- German: “CM-EN”
- German: “Extreme North”
- German: “Extrême-Nord”
- German: “Hoher Norden”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Απώτερου Βορρά”
- Gujarati: “ફાર નોર્થ”
- Hebrew: “אזור הצפון הרחוק”
- Hindi: “सुदूर उत्तर”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi ujung utara”
- Indonesian: “Region Ujung Utara, Kamerun”
- Indonesian: “Region Ujung Utara”
- Italian: “Extrême-Nord”
- Italian: “Provincia dell’Estremo Nord”
- Italian: “regione dell’Estremo Nord”
- Italian: “Regione dell’Estremo Nord”
- Japanese: “極北州”
- Kannada: “ದೂರದ ಉತ್ತರ”
- Korean: “최북부주”
- Kotava: “KamerunaExtremeNordGola”
- Latvian: “Galējo Ziemeļu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Tolimosios Šiaurės regionas”
- Malay: “Far North”
- Marathi: “फर नॉर्थ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Extrême-Nord Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Extrême-Nord (Regiuun uun Kameruun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Extrême-Nord”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Extrême-Nord”
- Norwegian: “Extrême-Nord”
- Persian: “منطقه شمال دور”
- Polish: “Prowincja Północna Dalsza”
- Polish: “Region Dalekiej Północy”
- Portuguese: “Extrême-Nord”
- Portuguese: “Extremo Norte”
- Romanian: “Provincia Extrem Nord, Camerun”
- Romanian: “Provincia Extrem Nord”
- Russian: “Крайнесеверный регион”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Daleki sjever (regija, Kamerun)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Daleki sjever”
- Sinhala: “ෆාර් නොර්ත්”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Extremo Norte”
- Spanish: “Region del Extremo Norte”
- Spanish: “Región del Extremo Norte”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kaskazini ya Mbali, Kamerun”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kaskazini ya Mbali”
- Swedish: “Nordligaste regionen”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Şimoli Durī”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Шимоли Дурӣ”
- Tamil: “பார் வடக்கு”
- Tamil: “வட தூர மண்டலம்”
- Tatar: “Ерак Төньяк төбәге”
- Telugu: “ఫార్ నార్త్”
- Thai: “ฟาร์ น็อท”
- Turkish: “Far North Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Uzak Kuzey Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Крайньопівнічний регіон”
- Urdu: “بعید شمالی ریجن”
- Urdu: “بعید شمالی علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Far North”
- Wu Chinese: “极北区”
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