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Adamaoua

Adamaoua is a region in central that stretches across the middle of the country from the Nigerian border east to the border with the Central African Republic.
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or N'Gaoundéré is the capital of the Adamawa Region of . It had a population of 152,700 at the 2005 census. According to the film Les Mairuuwas – Maitre de l'eau produced by the University of Tromsø, the population has rapidly risen to 1,200,000 owing to mass immigration from the and the perceived danger from Boko Haram in northern Cameroon.

Adamaoua

Latitude
6.8497° or 6° 50′ 59″ north
Longitude
13.2163° or 13° 12′ 59″ east
Population
495,000
Elevation
917 metres (3,009 feet)
Open location code
6FRMR6X8+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2169055874
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2236015
Wiki­data ID
Q351514
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Adamaoua” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “محافظة آداماوا”
  • Asturian: “Adamaoua”
  • Asturian: “Rexón Adamaoua”
  • Asturian: “Rexón d’Adamaoua”
  • Basque: “Adamawa (Kamerungo probintzia)”
  • Basque: “Adamawa”
  • Belarusian: “Адамава (рэгіён)”
  • Belarusian: “Адамава”
  • Bengali: “আদামাওয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Адамауа (Камерун)”
  • Bulgarian: “Адамауа”
  • Catalan: “Regió d’Adamaua”
  • Cebuano: “Adamaoua Region”
  • Chinese: “Adamaoua Chiu”
  • Chinese: “阿达马瓦”
  • Chinese: “阿达马瓦区”
  • Chinese: “阿达马瓦省”
  • Chinese: “阿達馬瓦省”
  • Danish: “Adamawa”
  • Dutch: “Adamaoua (provincie)”
  • Dutch: “Adamaoua”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Adamaŭa”
  • Estonian: “Adamaoua piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Adamaoua”
  • Finnish: “Adamawa”
  • French: “Adamaoua”
  • French: “Province de l’Adamaoua (Cameroun)”
  • French: “Province de l’adamaoua”
  • French: “Province de l’Adamaoua”
  • French: “Région de l’Adamaoua”
  • Georgian: “ადამავის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Adamaoua”
  • German: “Adamaua”
  • German: “CM-AD”
  • Greek: “Ανταμάουα”
  • Gujarati: “આદમાવા”
  • Hausa: “Jihar Adamawa”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Adamawa”
  • Hebrew: “אזור אדמאווה”
  • Hindi: “अदामावा”
  • Hungarian: “Adamaoua”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Adamaoua”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Adamawa, Kamerun”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi adamawa”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Adamawa”
  • Indonesian: “Region Adamawa”
  • Italian: “Adamaoua (Camerun)”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Adamaoua”
  • Italian: “regione di Adamaoua”
  • Italian: “Regione di Adamaoua”
  • Japanese: “アダマワ州”
  • Kannada: “ಆಡಮಾವಾ”
  • Korean: “아다마와 주 (카메룬)”
  • Korean: “아다마와 주”
  • Korean: “아다마와주”
  • Kotava: “KamerunaAdamaouaGola”
  • Latvian: “Adamavas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Adamavos regionas”
  • Malay: “Adamawa”
  • Malayalam: “Adamawa Region”
  • Malayalam: “അഡമാവാ”
  • Marathi: “आदावा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Adamaoua Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Adamaoua (Regiuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Adamaoua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adamawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aadamaawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adamaoua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adamawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adamoua (region i Kamerun)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adamoua”
  • Norwegian: “Adamaoua”
  • Persian: “آداماوا”
  • Persian: “اداماوا”
  • Persian: “استان آداماوا”
  • Persian: “استان اداماوا”
  • Persian: “منطقه آداماوا”
  • Polish: “Adamawa (prowincja)”
  • Polish: “Adamawa (region)”
  • Polish: “Adamawa”
  • Polish: “Region Adamawa”
  • Portuguese: “Adamaoua”
  • Portuguese: “Adamaua (Camarões)”
  • Portuguese: “Adamawa (região dos Camarões)”
  • Portuguese: “Adamawa (região)”
  • Portuguese: “Adamawa”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Adamawa”
  • Russian: “Адамава (провинция)”
  • Russian: “Адамава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Adamaoua”
  • Sinhala: “අඩමවා”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Adamawa”
  • Spanish: “Region Adamawa”
  • Spanish: “Región Adamawa”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Adamawa”
  • Swedish: “Adamaouaregionen”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Адамаоуа”
  • Tamil: “அடமாவா மண்டலம்”
  • Tamil: “அடமாவா”
  • Telugu: “ఆడమావా”
  • Thai: “รัฐอดามาวา”
  • Turkish: “Adamava”
  • Turkish: “Adamawa Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Адамава”
  • Ukrainian: “Адамауа”
  • Urdu: “آداماوا ریجن”
  • Urdu: “آداماوا علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Adamawa”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿达马瓦区”

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