Cameroon
NW Highlands
North-West Region

Bamenda

Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern and capital of the . The city has a population of about six hundred thousand people and is located 366 km north-west of the Cameroonian capital, .
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Bamenda

Latitude
5.9614° or 5° 57′ 41″ north
Longitude
10.1517° or 10° 9′ 6″ east
Population
1,740,000
Elevation
1,258 metres (4,127 feet)
IATA airport code
BPC
United Nations Location Code
CM BPC
Open location code
6FQGX562+HM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 247717281
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2234974
Wiki­data ID
Q528432
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Bamenda” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bamenda”
  • Arabic: “بامندة”
  • Armenian: “Բամենդա”
  • Asturian: “Bamenda”
  • Basque: “Bamenda”
  • Belarusian: “Баменда”
  • Belarusian: “Бамэнда”
  • Bengali: “বামেন্ডা”
  • Catalan: “Bamenda”
  • Cebuano: “Bamenda (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Bamenda”
  • Chinese: “Bamenda”
  • Chinese: “巴門達”
  • Chinese: “巴门达”
  • Croatian: “Bamenda”
  • Czech: “Bamenda”
  • Danish: “Bamenda”
  • Dutch: “Bamenda”
  • Eastern Mari: “Баменда”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بامندا”
  • Esperanto: “Bamenda”
  • Estonian: “Bamenda”
  • Finnish: “Bamenda”
  • French: “Bamenda”
  • Georgian: “ბამენდა”
  • German: “Bamenda”
  • Greek: “Μπαμέντα”
  • Gujarati: “બામેંડા”
  • Hebrew: “במנדה”
  • Hindi: “बामेंडा”
  • Hungarian: “Bamenda”
  • Inari Sami: “Bamenda”
  • Indonesian: “Bamenda”
  • Irish: “Bamenda”
  • Italian: “Bamenda”
  • Japanese: “バメンダ”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Bamenda”
  • Kannada: “ಬಮೆಂಡಾ”
  • Kildin Sami: “Баменда”
  • Korean: “바멘다”
  • Latvian: “Bamenda”
  • Lithuanian: “Bamenda”
  • Lule Sami: “Bamenda”
  • Malay: “Bamenda”
  • Marathi: “बामेंडा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bamenda”
  • Moksha: “Бамэнда”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bamenda”
  • Northern Sami: “Bamenda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bamenda”
  • Norwegian: “Bamenda”
  • Persian: “بامندا”
  • Pite Sami: “Bamenda”
  • Polish: “Bamenda”
  • Portuguese: “Bamenda”
  • Romanian: “Bamenda”
  • Russian: “Баменда”
  • Russian: “Баменды”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bamenda”
  • Shona: “Bamenda”
  • Silesian: “Bamenda”
  • Sinhala: “බමෙන්දා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bamenda”
  • Slovak: “Bamenda”
  • Slovenian: “Bamenda”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بامندا”
  • Southern Sami: “Bamenda”
  • Spanish: “Bamenda”
  • Swahili: “Bamenda”
  • Swedish: “Bamenda”
  • Tamil: “பாமென்டா”
  • Telugu: “బమెండ”
  • Thai: “บาเมนดา”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Bamenda”
  • Turkish: “Bamenda”
  • Tyap: “Bamenda”
  • Ukrainian: “Баменда”
  • Ume Sami: “Bamenda”
  • Urdu: “بامیندا”
  • Venetian: “Bamenda”
  • Vietnamese: “Bamenda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bamenda”
  • “Bamenda”

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