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Ngaoundéré

Ngaoundéré or N'Gaoundéré is the capital of the of . It had a population of 152,700 at the 2005 census. According to the film Les Mairuuwas – Maitre de l'eau produced by the University of Tromsø, the population has rapidly risen to 1,200,000 owing to mass immigration from the and the perceived danger from Boko Haram in northern Cameroon.
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  • Type: City with 903,000 residents
  • Description: city in Cameroon
  • Also known as: “Ngaoundere”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Municipal Ndoumbe Oumar and Ngaoundéré Central Station.

Stadium
is a multi-use in Ngaoundéré, . It is currently used mostly for football matches, on club level by Université FC de Ngaoundéré of the Elite One. The stadium has a capacity of 2,000 spectators.

Railway station
Photo: Luiclemens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the main railway station in Ngaoundéré, . It is located on the Yaoundé-Bélabo-Ngaoundéré line of the Camrail network.

Hospital building
Photo: beckmann, CC BY 2.0.
The is a Protestant hospital in N'Gaoundere, . Founded by Norwegian missionaries of the Norwegian Missionary Society in 1925, and partly funded by a wealthy American donator in Cameroon and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon, the hospital has been in full operation since 1957.

Ngaoundéré

Latitude
7.3212° or 7° 19′ 16″ north
Longitude
13.5878° or 13° 35′ 16″ east
Population
903,000
Elevation
1,128 metres (3,701 feet)
IATA airport code
NGE
United Nations Location Code
CM NGE
Open location code
6FVM8HCQ+F4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2504142377
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2224827
Wiki­data ID
Q745906
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ngaoundéré” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نغاونديري”
  • Arabic: “نغمدرة”
  • Armenian: “Նգաունդերե”
  • Asturian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Basque: “Ngaundere”
  • Belarusian: “Нгаундэрэ”
  • Belarusian: “Нгаўндэрэ”
  • Bengali: “ঙ্গাউন্ডেরে”
  • Catalan: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Cebuano: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Chinese: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Chinese: “恩冈代雷”
  • Chinese: “恩岡代雷”
  • Croatian: “N’Gaoundéré”
  • Croatian: “Ngaoundere”
  • Croatian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Czech: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Danish: “Ngaoundere”
  • Danish: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Dutch: “Ngaoundere”
  • Dutch: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نجاونديرى”
  • Esperanto: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Finnish: “Ngaoundéré”
  • French: “Ngaoudere”
  • French: “Ngaoundere”
  • French: “Ngaoundéré”
  • French: “Ngaundere”
  • Fulah: “𞤐’𞤘𞤢𞤱𞤲𞤣𞤫𞤪𞤫”
  • German: “Ngaoundere”
  • German: “Ngaoundéré”
  • German: “Ngaundere”
  • Greek: “Νγκαουντέρε”
  • Gujarati: “નગાઉન્ડેરે”
  • Hebrew: “נגאונדרה”
  • Hindi: “गोंडिया”
  • Indonesian: “Ngaoundere”
  • Indonesian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Irish: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Italian: “Ngaoundere”
  • Italian: “Ngaounderé”
  • Italian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Japanese: “ヌガウンデレ”
  • Japanese: “ンガウンデレ”
  • Kannada: “ನಾಗಾಂಡೆರೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Нгаундере”
  • Korean: “응가운데레”
  • Latvian: “Ngaundere”
  • Lithuanian: “Ngaunderė”
  • Macedonian: “Нгаундере”
  • Malay: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Marathi: “नगाऊंडेरे”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Norwegian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Persian: “انگاوندره”
  • Polish: “Ngaoundere”
  • Polish: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Portuguese: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Romanian: “N’Gaoundéré”
  • Romanian: “Ngaoundere”
  • Romanian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Russian: “Нгаундере”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Shona: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Sinhala: “එන්ගෞන්දෙරේ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “انقاوندره”
  • Spanish: “Ngaoundere”
  • Spanish: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Swahili: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Swedish: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Tamil: “ங்கவோஉன்டெரே”
  • Telugu: “నగావున్దెర్”
  • Thai: “งาอุนเดเร”
  • Turkish: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Ukrainian: “Нгаундере”
  • Urdu: “نگاؤندیرے”
  • Venetian: “Ngaoundéré”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngaoundere”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ngaoundéré”
  • Welsh: “Ngaoundéré”

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