Northern Cameroon
Northern Cameroon is a geopolitical region in Cameroon administratively divided into three regions: the Far North Region, the North Region, and the Adamawa Region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Garoua and Maroua.
Garoua
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Garoua is a port city lying on the Benue River in Northern Cameroon. Third biggest city in Cameroon.
Maroua
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Maroua is the capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon. In 2020, it was home to slightly over 1 million people.
Kousséri
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Kousséri, founded and known as Mser in the indigenous Mser language, is a city in Far North Province, Cameroon. It is the capital of the Logone-et-Chari department.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Rhumsiki.
Rhumsiki
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Rhumsiki, also spelt Rumsiki and Roumsiki, is a village in the Far North Province of Cameroon. Rhumsiki is located in the Mandara Mountains 55 km from Mokolo, and is located 3 km from the border with Michika LGA, Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Northern Cameroon
- Type: region of Cameroon with 2,440,000 residents
- Description: Region of Cameroon
- Also known as: “North”, “North Province”, “North Region”, and “North Region, Cameroon”
- Neighbors: Adamaoua
- Category: electoral unit
- Location: Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Northern Cameroon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشمال”
- Arabic: “المقاطعة الشمالية، الكاميرون”
- Arabic: “المنطقة الشمالية، الكاميرون”
- Arabic: “المنطقة الشمالية”
- Asturian: “Rexón del Norte”
- Asturian: “Rexón Norte”
- Basque: “Iparraldea (Kamerun)”
- Basque: “Iparraldea”
- Belarusian: “Паўночны рэгіён”
- Bengali: “নর্থ”
- Bulgarian: “Северен регион”
- Catalan: “Regió del Nord”
- Cebuano: “North Region”
- Chinese: “Nord Chiu”
- Chinese: “北喀麦隆”
- Chinese: “北部区”
- Chinese: “北部區”
- Chinese: “北部省”
- Danish: “Nord”
- Danish: “North”
- Dutch: “Nord”
- Esperanto: “Norda Kameruno”
- Esperanto: “Norda Regiono”
- Estonian: “Põhjapiirkond”
- Finnish: “Nord”
- Finnish: “North”
- French: “Nord du Cameroun”
- French: “Nord”
- French: “Province du Nord”
- French: “Région du Nord”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთის რეგიონი”
- German: “CM-NO”
- German: “Nord”
- German: “North”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια του Βορρά, Καμερούν”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια του Βορρά”
- Gujarati: “નોર્થ”
- Hebrew: “אזור הצפון”
- Hindi: “उत्तर”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Utara”
- Indonesian: “Region Utara, Kamerun”
- Indonesian: “Region Utara”
- Italian: “Camerun settentrionale”
- Italian: “Nord”
- Italian: “Provincia del Nord”
- Italian: “regione del Nord”
- Italian: “Regione del Nord”
- Japanese: “北部州”
- Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ”
- Korean: “북부주”
- Kotava: “KamerunaNordGola”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurinis regionas”
- Malay: “North”
- Marathi: “उत्तर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nord Chiu”
- Northern Frisian: “Nord (Regiuun uun Kameruun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Nord”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord”
- Norwegian: “Nord”
- Persian: “منطقه شمال”
- Polish: “Prowincja Północna”
- Polish: “Region Północny”
- Portuguese: “Nord”
- Portuguese: “Norte”
- Portuguese: “Região Norte”
- Pushto: “شمالي سيمه”
- Romanian: “Provincia de Nord, Camerun”
- Romanian: “Provincia de Nord”
- Russian: “Северный регион”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjever (regija, Kamerun)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjever”
- Sinhala: “උතුරු”
- Slovenian: “Nord”
- Slovenian: “North”
- Slovenian: “Sever”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Norte”
- Spanish: “Region del Norte”
- Spanish: “Región del Norte”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kaskazini, Kamerun”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kaskazini”
- Swedish: “Norra regionen”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Şimolī”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Шимолӣ”
- Tamil: “நோர்த்”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு மண்டலம்”
- Tatar: “Төньяк төбәге”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర”
- Thai: “แถบทางเหนือแคเมอรูน”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “North Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Північний регіон”
- Urdu: “شمالی ریجن”
- Urdu: “شمالی علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Phía Bắc”
- Wu Chinese: “北部区 (喀麦隆)”
- Wu Chinese: “北部区（喀麦隆）”
- Wu Chinese: “北部区”
- Yoruba: “Àríwá”
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