Faro
Faro is a department of North Region in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 11,785 km2 and as of 2001 had a total population of 81,472. The capital of the department lies at Poli.- Type: department of Cameroon with 81,500 residents
- Description: department of Cameroon
- Also known as: “département du Faro”
Faro
- Location: North Region, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
8.2501° or 8° 15′ 1″ north
Longitude
12.8783° or 12° 52′ 42″ east
Population
81,500
Elevation
288 metres (945 feet)
Open location code
6FWJ7V2H+38
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Urdu—“Faro” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Фаро (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Фаро”
- Cebuano: “Faro Department”
- Chinese: “法羅州”
- Dutch: “Faro”
- French: “Faro”
- German: “Faro”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Faro”
- Japanese: “ファロ (カメルーン)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Faro”
- Norwegian: “Faro”
- Persian: “بخش فارو”
- Polish: “Faro”
- Russian: “Фаро”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Faro”
- Spanish: “Faro”
- Swedish: “Faro”
- Urdu: “فارو (ڈیپارٹمنٹ)”
- Urdu: “فارو”
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