Cameroon
NW Highlands
West Region

Bafoussam

Bafoussam is the capital and largest city of the of , in the Bamboutos Mountains. It is the 3rd most important city in Cameroon, after and .
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  • Type: City with 373,000 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Bafoussam 1”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Municipal de Bamendzi.

Stadium
Racing Club de Bafoussam is a football club based in Bafoussam. They are a member of the Cameroonian Football Federation. Their home stadium is , a multi-use in Bafoussam with a capacity of 5,000.

Bafoussam

Latitude
5.4759° or 5° 28′ 33″ north
Longitude
10.4218° or 10° 25′ 18″ east
Population
373,000
Elevation
1,438 metres (4,718 feet)
IATA airport code
BFX
United Nations Location Code
CM BFX
Open location code
6FQGFCGC+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1809741111
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2235189
Wiki­data ID
Q799808
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Satellite Map

Discover Bafoussam from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Bafoussam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بافوسام”
  • Armenian: “Բաֆուսամ”
  • Armenian: “Բֆուսամ”
  • Asturian: “Bafoussam”
  • Basque: “Bafussam”
  • Belarusian: “Бафусам”
  • Bengali: “বাফুসাম”
  • Bulgarian: “Бафоусам”
  • Catalan: “Bafoussam”
  • Cebuano: “Bafoussam”
  • Chinese: “Bafoussam”
  • Chinese: “巴富薩姆”
  • Croatian: “Bafoussam”
  • Czech: “Bafoussam”
  • Danish: “Bafoussam”
  • Dutch: “Bafoussam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بافوسام”
  • Esperanto: “Bafoussam”
  • Finnish: “Bafoussam”
  • French: “Bafousam”
  • French: “Bafoussam”
  • French: “Bafoussem”
  • French: “Bafusam”
  • French: “Befoussam”
  • French: “Fussep”
  • Georgian: “ბაფუსამი”
  • German: “Bafoussam”
  • Greek: “Μπαφουσάμ”
  • Gujarati: “બફૌસમ”
  • Hebrew: “באפוסם”
  • Hebrew: “בפוסם”
  • Hindi: “बफौससम”
  • Hungarian: “Bafoussam”
  • Ido: “Bafoussam”
  • Indonesian: “Bafoussam”
  • Irish: “Bafoussam”
  • Italian: “Bafoussam”
  • Japanese: “バフーサム”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಫೌಸಮ್”
  • Korean: “바푸삼”
  • Latvian: “Bafusama”
  • Lithuanian: “Bafusamas”
  • Malay: “Bafoussam”
  • Marathi: “बेफूससम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bafoussam”
  • Moksha: “Бафусам”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bafoussam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bafoussam”
  • Norwegian: “Bafoussam”
  • Persian: “بافوسام”
  • Polish: “Bafoussam”
  • Portuguese: “Bafoussam”
  • Romanian: “Bafoussam”
  • Russian: “Бафусам”
  • Russian: “Бафуссама”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bafoussam”
  • Sinhala: “බෆොඋස්සම්”
  • Slovenian: “Bafoussam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بافوسام”
  • Spanish: “Bafoussam I”
  • Spanish: “Bafoussam”
  • Swahili: “Bafoussam”
  • Swedish: “Bafoussam”
  • Tamil: “பைபோஸ்ஸம்”
  • Telugu: “బాఫోస్సామ్”
  • Thai: “บาฟูซซัม”
  • Turkish: “Bafoussam”
  • Ukrainian: “Бафусам”
  • Urdu: “بافؤسام”
  • Vietnamese: “Bafoussam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bafoussam”

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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 “Bafoussam”. Photo: Ericdonald, CC BY-SA 4.0.