Foumban
Foumban or Fumban is a city in Cameroon, lying north east of Bafoussam. It has a population of 83,522. It is a major town for the Bamoun people and is home to a museum of traditional arts and culture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Foumban Royal Palace.
Foumban Royal Palace
Museum
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The Foumban Royal Palace is a historical building in the city of Foumban, capital of Noun. It is the seat of the Kingdom of Bamum, where the Chief-Superior of the peoples of the valley of the East bank of the Noun resides.
Foumban
- Type: City with 130,000 residents
- Description: commune of Cameroon
- Categories: commune of Cameroon and locality
- Location: West Region, Northwest Highlands, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
5.7282° or 5° 43′ 42″ northLongitude
10.8972° or 10° 53′ 50″ eastPopulation
130,000Elevation
1,179 metres (3,868 feet)IATA airport code
FOMUnited Nations Location Code
CM FOMOpen location code
6FQGPVHW+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 248096516OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2231506Wikidata ID
Q1439847
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Foumban” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فاومبان”
- Asturian: “Foumban”
- Belarusian: “Фумбан”
- Bulgarian: “Фоумбан”
- Catalan: “Foumban”
- Cebuano: “Foumban”
- Chinese: “Foumban”
- Chinese: “豐班”
- Dutch: “Foumban”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاومبان”
- Finnish: “Foumban”
- French: “Foumbam”
- French: “Foumban”
- French: “Fumban”
- German: “Foumban”
- Hebrew: “פומבאן”
- Hungarian: “Foumban”
- Italian: “Foumban”
- Japanese: “フーバン”
- Japanese: “フーンバン”
- Malay: “Foumban”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Foumban”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foumban”
- Polish: “Foumban”
- Portuguese: “Foumban”
- Romanian: “Foumban”
- Russian: “Фумбан”
- Spanish: “Foumban”
- Spanish: “Fumban”
- Swahili: “Foumban”
- Swedish: “Foumban”
- Turkish: “Foumban”
- Ukrainian: “Фумбан”
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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 “Foumban”. Photo: Mndetatsin, CC BY-SA 4.0.