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Douala

Douala is the largest city and the commercial centre of . Douala 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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  • Type: City with 2,000,000 residents
  • Description: city in Cameroon
  • Also known as: “Douala City” and “Doula”
Photo: Emiliano Gandolfi, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Mbappé Léppé and Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul.

Stadium
Photo: Serieminou, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stade Samuel Mbappé Léppé formally Stade Akwa is a multi-use in Douala, . It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Kadji Sports Academy. The stadium holds 4,000 people. Its namesake is Samuel Mbappé Léppé.

Church
Photo: Guillaume WA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The - situated in Douala, - is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala and dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

Museum
Photo: Roberto Paci Dalò, CC BY-SA 2.0.
doual'art is a non profit cultural organisation and art centre founded in 1991 in Douala, and focussed on new urban practices of cities.

Douala

Latitude
4.0429° or 4° 2′ 35″ north
Longitude
9.7062° or 9° 42′ 22″ east
Population
2,000,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
DLA
United Nations Location Code
CM DLA
Open location code
6FPF2PV4+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 732125487
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2232593
Wiki­data ID
Q132830
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Douala” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Douala”
  • Albanian: “Duala”
  • Arabic: “دوالا”
  • Arabic: “دوالة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة دوالة”
  • Armenian: “Դուալա”
  • Arpitan: “Douala”
  • Asturian: “Douala”
  • Azerbaijani: “Duala”
  • Balinese: “Douala”
  • Basque: “Duala”
  • Belarusian: “Дуала”
  • Bengali: “ডুয়ালা”
  • Bengali: “দোয়ালা”
  • Bengali: “দৌয়ালা”
  • Bosnian: “Douala”
  • Breton: “Douala”
  • Bulgarian: “Дуала”
  • Catalan: “Douala”
  • Catalan: “Duala”
  • Cebuano: “Douala”
  • Chechen: “Дуала (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Дуала”
  • Chinese: “Douala”
  • Chinese: “杜阿拉”
  • Croatian: “Douala”
  • Czech: “Douala”
  • Danish: “Douala”
  • Dutch: “Douala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دوالا”
  • Esperanto: “Douala”
  • Esperanto: “Dualao”
  • Estonian: “Douala”
  • Estonian: “Kamerunstadt”
  • Ewe: “Douala”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Douala”
  • Finnish: “Douala”
  • French: “Douala”
  • Galician: “Douala”
  • Georgian: “დუალა”
  • German: “Douala”
  • German: “Duala”
  • Greek: “Ντουάλα”
  • Gujarati: “ડોઆલા”
  • Gujarati: “દૌઆલા”
  • Haitian: “Dwala”
  • Hausa: “Douala”
  • Hebrew: “דואואלה”
  • Hebrew: “דואלה”
  • Hindi: “डुआला”
  • Hindi: “डुओला”
  • Hungarian: “Douala”
  • Icelandic: “Douala”
  • Icelandic: “Dóúala”
  • Ido: “Douala”
  • Indonesian: “Douala”
  • Interlingue: “Douala”
  • Irish: “Douala”
  • Italian: “Douala”
  • Japanese: “ドゥアラ”
  • Kabiyè: “Duwala”
  • Kabiyè: “Tuwala”
  • Kannada: “ದೌಲಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Дуала”
  • Kirghiz: “Дуала”
  • Korean: “두알라”
  • Latin: “Douala”
  • Latin: “Duala”
  • Latvian: “Duala”
  • Lingala: “Duala”
  • Lithuanian: “Douala”
  • Lithuanian: “Duala”
  • Lombard: “Douala”
  • Macedonian: “Дуала”
  • Malagasy: “Douala”
  • Malay: “Douala”
  • Malayalam: “ദൗവ്വാല”
  • Marathi: “कामेरूनश्टाड”
  • Marathi: “दौआला”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Douala”
  • Moksha: “Дуала”
  • Mongolian: “Дуала”
  • N'Ko: “ߘߎߥߊ߯ߟߊ߫”
  • Northern Frisian: “Douala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Douala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Duala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Douala”
  • Norwegian: “Douala”
  • Ossetian: “Дуалæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੂਆਲਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੌਆਲਾ”
  • Persian: “دوالا”
  • Piemontese: “Douala”
  • Polish: “Douala”
  • Polish: “Duala”
  • Portuguese: “Douala”
  • Portuguese: “Duala”
  • Pushto: “دوالا”
  • Romanian: “Douala”
  • Russian: “Дуала”
  • Russian: “Камерун”
  • Russian: “Камерунштадт”
  • Scots: “Douala”
  • Serbian: “Douala”
  • Serbian: “Duala”
  • Serbian: “Дуала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Douala”
  • Silesian: “Douala”
  • Sinhala: “ඩුවාලා”
  • Slovak: “Douala”
  • Slovenian: “Douala”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوالا”
  • Spanish: “Douala”
  • Spanish: “Duala”
  • Swahili: “Douala”
  • Swedish: “Douala”
  • Tachawit: “Duala”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Douala”
  • Tajik: “Дуала”
  • Tamil: “டுஆலா”
  • Telugu: “దౌవాలా”
  • Thai: “ดูอาลา”
  • Turkish: “Douala”
  • Turkmen: “Duala”
  • Ukrainian: “Дуала”
  • Ukrainian: “Камерун”
  • Ukrainian: “Камерунштадт”
  • Urdu: “دوالا”
  • Uzbek: “Duala”
  • Venetian: “Douala”
  • Veps: “Dual”
  • Vietnamese: “Douala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Douala”
  • Welsh: “Douala”
  • Wu Chinese: “杜阿拉”
  • Yoruba: “Douala”
  • “Douala”

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