Edéa
Edéa is a city and commune in the Littoral Region of Cameroon. Situated on the Sanaga River, it lies on the Douala–Yaoundé–Ngaoundéré railway line. Its population was estimated at 122,300 in 2001.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sosojam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kametia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 104,000 residents
- Description: commune of Cameroon
- Also known as: “Edea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edea Hydroelectric Power Station.
Edea Hydroelectric Power Station
Dam
Photo: George Rodger, Public domain.
The Edea Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant of the Sanaga River near Edéa in Cameroon. It has a power generating capacity of 264 megawatts, enough to power over 136,600 homes. Nearly 60% of the power goes to the aluminum smelter.
Edéa
- Categories: commune of Cameroon and locality
- Location: Littoral Province, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
3.799° or 3° 47′ 56″ northLongitude
10.1266° or 10° 7′ 36″ eastPopulation
104,000Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)United Nations Location Code
CM EDAOpen location code
6FMGQ4XG+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 331133522OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Edéa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إديا”
- Armenian: “Էդեա (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Էդեա”
- Asturian: “Edéa”
- Bulgarian: “Едеа”
- Catalan: “Édéa”
- Cebuano: “Edéa”
- Chinese: “Édéa”
- Chinese: “埃代阿”
- Czech: “Edéa”
- Dutch: “Edea”
- Dutch: “Edéa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اديا”
- Finnish: “Edéa”
- French: “Edea”
- French: “Edéa”
- French: “Édéa”
- German: “Edéa”
- Hebrew: “אדיאה”
- Irish: “Edéa”
- Italian: “Edea”
- Italian: “Edéa”
- Italian: “Édéa”
- Japanese: “エデア”
- Lithuanian: “Edea”
- Lithuanian: “Edėja”
- Malagasy: “Edéa”
- Malay: “Édéa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Édéa”
- Moksha: “Эдэа”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Edéa”
- Polish: “Edea”
- Polish: “Edéa”
- Portuguese: “Edéa”
- Romanian: “Edea”
- Romanian: “Edéa”
- Russian: “Эдеа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Edéa”
- Silesian: “Edéa”
- Spanish: “Édéa II”
- Swahili: “Edéa”
- Swedish: “Edéa”
- Ukrainian: “Едеа”
- Venetian: “Édéa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Edéa”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sous-Préfecture d’Edéa 1 and Campost.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Edéa”. Photo: Kametia, CC BY-SA 3.0.