Dschang
Dschang is a sizable community located in the West Region of Cameroon. The somewhat odd spelling goes back to the German colonizers of the 19th century.Dschang
- Type: City with 200,000 residents
- Description: city
- Category: locality
- Location: West Region, Northwest Highlands, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
5.447° or 5° 26′ 49″ north
Longitude
10.0533° or 10° 3′ 12″ east
Population
200,000
Elevation
1,345 metres (4,413 feet)
IATA airport code
DSC
United Nations Location Code
CM DSC
Open location code
6FQGC3W3+Q8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Dschang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جان”
- Arabic: “ديشانج”
- Asturian: “Dschang”
- Bulgarian: “Дсчанг”
- Cebuano: “Dschang”
- Chinese: “Dschang”
- Chinese: “姜鎮”
- Chinese: “姜镇”
- Dutch: “Dschang”
- French: “Chang”
- French: “Dchang”
- French: “Djang”
- French: “Dschang”
- French: “Tchang”
- German: “Dschang”
- Hebrew: “דסצ’אנג”
- Italian: “Dschang”
- Japanese: “ジャング”
- Malay: “Dschang”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dschang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dschang”
- Polish: “Dschang”
- Portuguese: “Dschang”
- Romanian: “Dschang”
- Russian: “Джанг”
- Spanish: “Dschang”
- Swahili: “Dschang”
- Swedish: “Dschang”
- Tagalog: “Dschang”
- Urdu: “دشانگ”
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