Garoua

Garoua is a port city lying on the Benue River in . Third biggest city in Cameroon.
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  • Type: City with 1,700,000 residents
  • Description: city in Cameroon
  • Also known as: “Garuja” and “Гарва”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Roumdé Adjia Stadium.

Stadium
Stade Roumdé Adjia is a multi-purpose stadium in Garoua, Cameroon.

Garoua

Latitude
9.3071° or 9° 18′ 26″ north
Longitude
13.3935° or 13° 23′ 36″ east
Population
1,700,000
Elevation
199 metres (653 feet)
IATA airport code
GOU
UN/LOCODE
CM GOU
Open location code
6FXM894V+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248764852
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2231320
Wiki­data ID
Q157915
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Garoua” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ጋሩዋ”
  • Arabic: “غاروا”
  • Arabic: “غروة”
  • Armenian: “Գարուա”
  • Asturian: “Garoua”
  • Azerbaijani: “Garua”
  • Basque: “Garua”
  • Belarusian: “Гаруа”
  • Bengali: “গারুয়া”
  • Bengali: “গারোয়া”
  • Catalan: “Garoua”
  • Cebuano: “Garoua (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Garoua”
  • Chinese: “加魯阿”
  • Chinese: “加鲁阿”
  • Croatian: “Garoua”
  • Czech: “Garoua”
  • Danish: “Garoua”
  • Dutch: “Garoua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جاروا”
  • Esperanto: “Garoua”
  • Finnish: “Garoua”
  • French: “Garoua”
  • Galician: “Garoua”
  • Georgian: “გარუა”
  • German: “Garoua”
  • German: “Garua”
  • Greek: “Γκαρουά”
  • Gujarati: “ગારોઆ”
  • Hausa: “Garoua”
  • Hausa: “Garua”
  • Hausa: “Garwa”
  • Hebrew: “גארואה”
  • Hindi: “गारुआ”
  • Hindi: “गार्वा”
  • Hungarian: “Garoua”
  • Igbo: “Garoua”
  • Indonesian: “Garoua”
  • Irish: “Garoua”
  • Italian: “Garoua”
  • Japanese: “ガルア”
  • Javanese: “Garua”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾರೌ”
  • Kazakh: “Гаруа”
  • Kirghiz: “Гаруа”
  • Korean: “가루아”
  • Latvian: “Garva”
  • Lithuanian: “Garua”
  • Macedonian: “Гаруа”
  • Malay: “Garoua”
  • Marathi: “गरोवुया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Garoua”
  • Northern Frisian: “Garoua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Garoua”
  • Norwegian: “Garoua”
  • Oromo: “Garua”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਾਰੋਆ”
  • Persian: “گاروا”
  • Polish: “Garoua”
  • Portuguese: “Garoua”
  • Portuguese: “Garua”
  • Pushto: “گاروا”
  • Romanian: “Garoua”
  • Russian: “Гаруа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Garoua”
  • Shona: “Garoua”
  • Silesian: “Garoua”
  • Sinhala: “ගරුවා”
  • Slovenian: “Garoua, Kamerun”
  • Somali: “Garua”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قاروا”
  • Spanish: “Garoua”
  • Spanish: “Garua”
  • Swahili: “Garoua”
  • Swedish: “Garoua”
  • Tajik: “Гаруа”
  • Tamil: “காரோஉவா”
  • Tatar: “Гаруа”
  • Telugu: “గరౌవ”
  • Thai: “การัว”
  • Turkish: “Garoua”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаруа”
  • Urdu: “گارؤا”
  • Uzbek: “Garua”
  • Venetian: “Garoua”
  • Vietnamese: “Garoua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Garoua”

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