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Cameroon

Cameroon is a country in . Known as "Africa in miniature", the country is known for its geological, linguistic, artistic, and cultural diversity: some 250 languages are spoken in this mid-sized country.
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is the capital of Cameroon, and the country's second most populous city. It is smaller than the economic centre, but still a bustling city. Called the city on seven hills, is home to people from all over Cameroon.

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is the largest city and the commercial centre of Cameroon. is really quite a hot and sticky place, and the grimy state of the infrastructure in parts leaves a lot to be desired.

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is a region in central Cameroon 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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is a region of Cameroon. The northern segment of is called Ambazonia.

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The or Southern Cameroon Plateau is the dominant geographical feature of Cameroon. The plateau lies south of the Adamawa Plateau and southeast of the Cameroon Range.

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is a region of Cameroon.

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is a geopolitical region in Cameroon administratively divided into three regions: the Far North Region, the North Region, and the Adamawa Region.

Cameroon

Latitude of center
4.9° or 4° 54′ north
Longitude of center
12.1° or 12° 6′ east
Population
20,500,000
Area
475,440 km² (183,568 miles²)
Elevation
720 metres (2,362 feet)
Capital
Yaounde
Currency
Franc (XAF)
Phone code
.cm
Internet domain
237
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2233387
Wiki­data ID
Q1009
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Cameroon” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Камерун”
  • Abkhazian: “Камерун”
  • Adyghe: “Камерун”
  • Afrikaans: “Kameroen”
  • Akan: “Kamɛrun”
  • Albanian: “Kamerun”
  • Albanian: “Kameruni”
  • Amharic: “ካሜሩን”
  • Amis: “Kamiron”
  • Angika: “कैमरून”
  • Arabic: “الكاميرون”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية الكاميرون”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية الكمرون”
  • Arabic: “كاميرون”
  • Arabic: “كمرون”
  • Aragonese: “Camerún”
  • Armenian: “Կամերուն”
  • Arpitan: “Cameron”
  • Assamese: “কেমেৰুণ”
  • Asturian: “Camerún”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kamerun”
  • Balinese: “Kamerun”
  • Bambara: “Kamerun”
  • Bambara: “Kameruni”
  • Banjar: “Kamerun”
  • Bashkir: “Камерун”
  • Basque: “Kamerun”
  • Batak Toba: “Kamerun”
  • Bavarian: “Kamerun”
  • Belarusian: “Камерун”
  • Belarusian: “Камэрун”
  • Bengali: “ক্যামেরুন প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “ক্যামেরুন”
  • Betawi: “Kamérun”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैमरुन”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैमरून”
  • Bishnupriya: “ক্যামেরুন”
  • Bislama: “Kamerun”
  • Bosnian: “Kamerun”
  • Breton: “Kameroun”
  • Bulgarian: “Камерун”
  • Burmese: “ကင်မရွန်း”
  • Burmese: “ကင်မရွန်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Camerun”
  • Catalan: “República del Camerun”
  • Cebuano: “Cameroon”
  • Cebuano: “Kamerun”
  • Central Bikol: “Kameron”
  • Central Kanuri: “Cameroon”
  • Central Kurdish: “کامیروون”
  • Chavacano: “Camerún”
  • Chechen: “Камерун”
  • Cherokee: “ᎧᎹᎷᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Cameroon”
  • Chinese: “Kāmàilóng”
  • Chinese: “喀麥隆”
  • Chinese: “喀麥隆共和國”
  • Chinese: “喀麦隆 / 喀麥隆”
  • Chinese: “喀麦隆”
  • Chinese: “喀麦隆共和国”
  • Chuvash: “Камерун”
  • Cornish: “Kameroun”
  • Corsican: “Camerun”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kamerun”
  • Croatian: “Kamerun”
  • Czech: “Kamerun”
  • Dagbani: “Cameroon”
  • Danish: “Cameroon”
  • Danish: “Cameroun”
  • Danish: “cm”
  • Danish: “Kamerun”
  • Danish: “Republic of Cameroon”
  • Danish: “République du Cameroun”
  • Dhivehi: “ކެމަރޫން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kamerun”
  • Dinka: “Kameroon”
  • Dotyali: “क्यामेरून”
  • Duala: “Kamerun”
  • Dutch: “Kameroen”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Kameroen”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེ་མ་རུན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Камерун”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الكاميرون”
  • Esperanto: “Kamerunio”
  • Esperanto: “Kameruno”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Kamerunio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Kameruno”
  • Estonian: “Kamerun”
  • Estonian: “Kameruni Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Cameroon”
  • Ewe: “Kamerun nutome”
  • Ewe: “Kamerun”
  • Extremaduran: “Camerún”
  • Farefare: “Cameroon”
  • Faroese: “Kamerun”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Cameroon”
  • Finnish: “Kamerun”
  • Finnish: “Kamerunin tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Cameroun”
  • Fon: “Camerountò”
  • French: “Cameroun”
  • French: “la République du Cameroun”
  • French: “République du Cameroun”
  • Fulah: “Kamerun”
  • Fulah: “Kameruun”
  • Ga: “Kamerun”
  • Gagauz: “Kamerun”
  • Galician: “Camerún”
  • Ganda: “Cameroon”
  • Ganda: “Kameruuni”
  • Georgian: “კამერუნი”
  • German: “Kamerun”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cameroon”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Cameroon”
  • Gilaki: “کامرؤن”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Καμερούν”
  • Greek: “Καμερούν”
  • Guarani: “Kamerũ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kamroun”
  • Gujarati: “કૅમરૂન”
  • Gujarati: “કેમેરૂન”
  • Gun: “Cameroun”
  • Haitian: “Kamewoun”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cameroon”
  • Hausa: “Kamaru”
  • Hausa: “Kameru”
  • Hebrew: “קאמרון”
  • Hebrew: “קמרון”
  • Hindi: “कामेरान”
  • Hindi: “कैमरुन”
  • Hindi: “कैमरून”
  • Hungarian: “Kamerun”
  • Hungarian: “Kameruni Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Kamerún”
  • Ido: “Kamerun”
  • Igbo: “Cameroon”
  • Igbo: “Kameroon”
  • Iloko: “Camerun”
  • Iloko: “Kamerun”
  • Inari Sami: “Kamerun täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Kamerun”
  • Indonesian: “Kamerun”
  • Interlingua: “Camerun”
  • Interlingue: “Camerun”
  • Irish: “Camarún”
  • Italian: “Camerun”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Camerun”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kamaruun”
  • Japanese: “カメルーン”
  • Japanese: “カメルーン共和国”
  • Javanese: “Kamerun”
  • Javanese: “Kamérun”
  • Kabiyè: “Kameruni”
  • Kabyle: “Kamirun”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kamerun”
  • Kalmyk: “Камерудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಮರೂನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಮರೋನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kamerun”
  • Kashmiri: “کیمَروٗن”
  • Kashmiri: “کیمِروٗن”
  • Kazakh: “Камерун”
  • Khmer: “កាមេរូន”
  • Kikuyu: “Cameroon”
  • Kikuyu: “Kameruni”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kameruni”
  • Kirghiz: “Камерун”
  • Komering: “Kamerun”
  • Kongo: “Kamerun”
  • Korean: “까메룬”
  • Korean: “까메룬공화국”
  • Korean: “카메룬”
  • Kotava: “Kameruna”
  • Kurdish: “Kamerûn”
  • Kurdish: “کامیروون”
  • Ladin: “Camerun”
  • Ladino: “Kamerun”
  • Lao: “ຄາເມຣູນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດກາເມີຣູນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດແຄເມີຣູນ”
  • Latin: “Cameronia”
  • Latin: “Cammarunia”
  • Latvian: “Kamerūna”
  • Ligurian: “Cameron”
  • Ligurian: “Camerun”
  • Limburgan: “Kameroen”
  • Lingala: “Kamerun”
  • Lingala: “Kamɛrune”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Camerun”
  • Literary Chinese: “喀麥隆”
  • Lithuanian: “Kamerūnas”
  • Livvi: “Kamerun”
  • Lojban: “kamerun”
  • Lombard: “Camerun”
  • Low German: “Kameroen”
  • Low German: “Kamerun”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kamerun”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Kamerune”
  • Lule Sami: “Kameruvnna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kamerun”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Camerun”
  • Macedonian: “Камерун”
  • Madurese: “Kamerun”
  • Madurese: “Kamèrun”
  • Malagasy: “Kamerona”
  • Malay: “Cameroon”
  • Malay: “Kamerun”
  • Malayalam: “കാമറൂണ്‍”
  • Malayalam: “കാമറൂൺ”
  • Maltese: “il-Kamerun”
  • Maltese: “Kamerun”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Kamerun”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯃꯦꯔꯨꯟ”
  • Manx: “CAM”
  • Manx: “Cameroon”
  • Manx: “CM”
  • Manx: “CMR”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght Chameroon”
  • Maori: “Kamarūna”
  • Marathi: “कामेरून”
  • Marathi: “कॅमेरून”
  • Mazanderani: “کامرون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cameroon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cameroon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cameroun”
  • Minangkabau: “Kamerun”
  • Mingrelian: “კამერუნი”
  • Mirandese: “Camarones”
  • Moksha: “Камэрун”
  • Mongolian: “Камерун”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاميرون”
  • Mossi: “Cameroon”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߊߡߋߙߎ߲ߣ”
  • Nauru: “Camerun”
  • Nauru: “Kamerun”
  • Navajo: “Táłtłʼááh Chʼosh Daadánígíí Bitooh”
  • Nepali: “क्यामरून”
  • Nepali: “क्यामेरून”
  • Newari: “क्यामेरून”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Kamerun”
  • North Ndebele: “Khameruni”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kameruun”
  • Northern Luri: “کامرون”
  • Northern Sami: “Kamerun dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Kamerun”
  • Northern Sami: “Kameruna dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kamerun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Kamerun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kamerun”
  • Norwegian: “Kamerun”
  • Novial: “Kamerun”
  • Obolo: “Kamerun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cameron”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܐܡܪܘܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Camerun”
  • Oriya: “କାମେରୁନ”
  • Oriya: “କାମେରୁନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Kaameruun”
  • Ossetian: “Камерун”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ကဲမ်မရွန်းခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “केमेरून”
  • Pampanga: “Cameroon”
  • Pampanga: “Kamerun”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਮਰੂਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Cameroon”
  • Papiamento: “Kamerun”
  • Pedi: “Cameroon”
  • Persian: “کامرون”
  • Piemontese: “Cameron”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Cameroon”
  • Polish: “Kamerun”
  • Pontic: “Καμερούν”
  • Portuguese: “Camarões”
  • Portuguese: “República dos Camarões”
  • Prussian: “Kamerūns”
  • Pushto: “کامرون”
  • Pushto: “کېمرون”
  • Quechua: “Camerún”
  • Quechua: “Kamirun”
  • Romanian: “Camerun”
  • Romansh: “Camerun”
  • Rundi: “Kameruni”
  • Russia Buriat: “Камерун”
  • Russian: “Камерун”
  • Russian: “Республика Камерун”
  • Rusyn: “Камерун”
  • Samoan: “Cameroon”
  • Samogitian: “Kamerūns”
  • Sango: “Kamerün”
  • Sango: “Kamerûne”
  • Sanskrit: “केमेरून”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱢᱮᱨᱩᱱ”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱮᱢᱮᱨᱩᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Camerùn”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kamerun”
  • Scots: “Cameroon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Camarun”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cameroon”
  • Serbian: “Kamerun”
  • Serbian: “Камерун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kamerun”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶႅမ်းမႃးရုၼ်း”
  • Shona: “Cameroon”
  • Shona: “Kameruni”
  • Sicilian: “Camerun”
  • Silesian: “Kamerůn”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيمرون”
  • Sinhala: “කැමරූන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kameruun tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kameruun”
  • Slovak: “Kamerun”
  • Slovak: “Kamerunská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Kamerun”
  • Somali: “Kaameruun”
  • Somali: “Kameroon”
  • Somali: “Kamiruun”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کامرون”
  • South Ndebele: “Cameroon”
  • Southern Sotho: “Cameroon”
  • Spanish: “Camerun”
  • Spanish: “Camerún”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Camerun”
  • Spanish: “República de Camerún”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⴰⵎⵉⵔⵓⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Kamerun”
  • Swahili: “Kamerun”
  • Swahili: “Kameruni”
  • Swati: “IKhameruni”
  • Swedish: “Kamerun”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Kamerun”
  • Swiss German: “Kamerun”
  • Tachelhit: “Kamirun”
  • Tagalog: “Cameroon”
  • Tajik: “Камерун”
  • Talysh: “Kamerun”
  • Tamil: “கமரூன்”
  • Tamil: “கேமரூன்”
  • Taroko: “Cameron”
  • Tatar: “Камерун”
  • Telugu: “కామెరూన్”
  • Thai: “แคเมอรูน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศแคเมอรูน”
  • Tibetan: “ཀ་མེ་རུན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཁམ་མུ་རོན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ካሜሮን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kameluni”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kamerun”
  • Tsonga: “Cameroon”
  • Tumbuka: “Cameroon”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “الكاميرون”
  • Turkish: “Kamerun”
  • Turkmen: “Kamerun”
  • Twi: “Cameroon”
  • Tyap: “Kemerun”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Kemerun”
  • Udmurt: “Камерун”
  • Uighur: “كامېرون”
  • Uighur: “كامېرۇن”
  • Ukrainian: “Камерун”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Камерун”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kamerun”
  • Urdu: “کیمرون”
  • Uzbek: “Kamerun”
  • Venetian: “Camerun”
  • Veps: “Kamerun”
  • Vietnamese: “Ca-mơ-run (Cameroon)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ca-mơ-run”
  • Vietnamese: “Cameroon”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Cameroon”
  • Vlaams: “Kameroen”
  • Volapük: “Kamerunän”
  • Võro: “Kamõrun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Camerun”
  • Welsh: “Camerŵn”
  • Welsh: “Y Camerŵn”
  • Western Armenian: “Քամերոն”
  • Western Armenian: “Քամերուն”
  • Western Balochi: “کامیرون”
  • Western Frisian: “Kameroen”
  • Western Mari: “Камерун”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیمرون”
  • Wolof: “Kamerun”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀麦隆”
  • Yakut: “Камерун”
  • Yiddish: “קאמערון”
  • Yiddish: “קאַמערון”
  • Yoruba: “Cameroon”
  • Yoruba: “Kamerúúnì”
  • Yoruba: “Kamẹrúùnù”
  • Yue Chinese: “Cameroon”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀麥隆”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀麦隆”
  • Zeeuws: “Kammeroen”
  • Zhuang: “Cameroon”
  • Zulu: “i-Cameroon”
  • Zulu: “IKamerooni”
  • “CAM”
  • “Camerun”
  • “CM”
  • “CMR”
  • “Kamerun”
  • “Kamerūns”
  • “Kamõrun”
  • “ma Kamelun”
  • “कैमरून”

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