Cameroon
South Cameroon Plateau
Centre Region

Yaoundé

Yaoundé is the capital of , and the country's second most populous city. It is smaller than the economic centre, but still a bustling city. Called the city on seven hills, Yaoundé is home to people from all over Cameroon.
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  • Type: City with 1,820,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Cameroon
  • Also known as: “Jaúnde”, “Ongola”, “Yaounde”, “Yaounde, Cameroon”, and “Yaoundé, Cameroon”
Photo: Frederic PAPY, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Frederic PAPY, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blackitude Museum and Yaoundé train station.

Museum
Photo: Awinda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a private ethnographic institution. It is located in the city center of Yaoundé behind the Presidential Tribune on the Boulevard du 20 Mai, in the of .

Railway station
Photo: Frankywilly, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Museum
Photo: Z. NGNOGUE, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Yaoundé

Latitude
3.869° or 3° 52′ 8″ north
Longitude
11.5213° or 11° 31′ 17″ east
Population
1,820,000
Elevation
726 metres (2,382 feet)
IATA airport code
YAO
United Nations Location Code
CM YAO
Open location code
6FMHVG9C+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 331136682
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2220957
Wiki­data ID
Q3808
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Yaoundé” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yaoundé”
  • Albanian: “Jaunde”
  • Amharic: “ያዉንዴ”
  • Arabic: “ياوندي”
  • Aragonese: “Yaoundé”
  • Armenian: “Յաունդե”
  • Arpitan: “Yaoundé”
  • Asturian: “Yaundé”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yaunde”
  • Balinese: “Yaoundé”
  • Bashkir: “Яунде”
  • Basque: “Jaunde”
  • Belarusian: “Яундэ”
  • Belarusian: “Яўндэ”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াউন্দে”
  • Bosnian: “Yaoundé”
  • Breton: “Yaoundé”
  • Bulgarian: “Яунде”
  • Burmese: “ယောင်အွန်ဒေးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Yaoundé”
  • Cebuano: “Yaoundé”
  • Central Bikol: “Yaoundé”
  • Central Kurdish: “یائوندێ”
  • Chechen: “Яунде”
  • Chinese: “Yaoundé”
  • Chinese: “耶溫得”
  • Chinese: “雅恩德”
  • Chinese: “雅温得”
  • Chinese: “雅溫得”
  • Chinese: “雅溫德”
  • Cornish: “Yaoundé”
  • Croatian: “Yaoundé”
  • Czech: “Jaunde”
  • Czech: “Yaoundé”
  • Dagbani: “Yaoundé”
  • Danish: “Yaoundé”
  • Dutch: “Yaounde”
  • Dutch: “Yaoundé”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ياوندى”
  • Esperanto: “Jaundeo”
  • Esperanto: “Jaundo”
  • Estonian: “Yaoundé”
  • Ewe: “Yaoundé”
  • Fanti: “Yaoundé”
  • Farefare: “Yaoundé”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Yaoundé”
  • Finnish: “Yaounde”
  • Finnish: “Yaoundé”
  • French: “Yaounde, Ongola”
  • French: “Yaoundé”
  • Fulah: “Yaounde”
  • Ga: “Ongola”
  • Ga: “Yaounde, Cameroon”
  • Ga: “Yaoundé, Cameroon”
  • Ga: “Yaounde”
  • Ga: “Yaoundé”
  • Galician: “Yaoundé”
  • Georgian: “იაუნდე”
  • German: “Jaunde”
  • German: “Yaoundé”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Yaoundé”
  • Greek: “Γιαουντέ”
  • Gujarati: “યાઓન્ડે”
  • Haitian: “Yaounde”
  • Haitian: “Yawounde”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yaoundé”
  • Hausa: “Yaounde”
  • Hebrew: “יאונדה”
  • Hindi: “याउन्दे”
  • Hindi: “याओऊंडे”
  • Hindi: “योण्डे”
  • Hungarian: “Yaoundé”
  • Icelandic: “Jánde”
  • Ido: “Yaounde”
  • Igbo: “Yaoundé”
  • Inari Sami: “Yaoundé”
  • Indonesian: “Yaoundé”
  • Interlingua: “Yaoundé”
  • Interlingue: “Yaoundé”
  • Irish: “Yaoundé”
  • Italian: “Yaoundé”
  • Japanese: “ヤウンデ”
  • Javanese: “Yaoundé”
  • Kabiyè: “Yawunde”
  • Kabyle: “Yaoundé”
  • Kannada: “ಯೌಂಡೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Яунде қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Яунде”
  • Khmer: “យុនដេ”
  • Kirghiz: “Яунде”
  • Komering: “Yaoundé”
  • Kongo: “Yaounde”
  • Korean: “야운데”
  • Kotava: “Yaoundé”
  • Kurdish: “Yaoundé”
  • Kusaal: “Yaoundé”
  • Latin: “Yaunde”
  • Latvian: “Jaunde”
  • Ligurian: “Yaoundé”
  • Lingala: “Yaoundé”
  • Lingala: “Yaundé”
  • Lithuanian: “Jaundė”
  • Livvi: “Jaunde”
  • Lombard: “Yaoundé”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yaoundé”
  • Macedonian: “Јаунде”
  • Malagasy: “Yaoundé”
  • Malay: “Yaoundé”
  • Malayalam: “യുവാൻഡേ”
  • Marathi: “याउंदे”
  • Mazanderani: “یائونده”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yaoundé”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yaoundé”
  • Minangkabau: “Yaoundé”
  • Mingrelian: “იაუნდე”
  • Moksha: “Яундэ”
  • Mongolian: “Яунде”
  • Mossi: “Yaoundé”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Yaoundé”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yaoundé”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yaoundé”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yaoundé”
  • Norwegian: “Yaoundé”
  • Novial: “Yaunde”
  • Nyanja: “Yaoundé”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yaoundé”
  • Ossetian: “Яунде”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਾਊਂਦੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Yaoundé”
  • Persian: “یائونده”
  • Piemontese: “Yaoundé”
  • Polish: “Jaunde”
  • Portuguese: “Iaundé”
  • Portuguese: “Iaundê”
  • Portuguese: “Yaoundé”
  • Pushto: “یایونده”
  • Quechua: “Yaoundé”
  • Quechua: “Yaundé”
  • Romanian: “Yaoundé”
  • Russian: “Яунде”
  • Sakizaya: “yaunte”
  • Sardinian: “Yaoundé”
  • Scots: “Yaoundé”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Yaoundé”
  • Serbian: “Yaoundé”
  • Serbian: “Јаунде”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jaunde”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yaoundé”
  • Shona: “Yaoundé”
  • Silesian: “Jaunde”
  • Sindhi: “يائونڊي”
  • Sinhala: “යාවුන්ඩේ”
  • Slovak: “Yaoundé”
  • Slovenian: “Yaounde”
  • Slovenian: “Yaoundé”
  • Somali: “Yawunde”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یائونده”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Yaoundé”
  • Spanish: “Yaounde”
  • Spanish: “Yaoundé”
  • Spanish: “Yaunde”
  • Spanish: “Yaundé”
  • Swahili: “Yaounde”
  • Swahili: “Yaunde”
  • Swedish: “Yaoundé”
  • Tagalog: “Jaunde”
  • Tagalog: “Yaoundé”
  • Tajik: “Яунде”
  • Talysh: “Yaunde”
  • Tamil: “யாவுண்டே”
  • Tatar: “Яунде”
  • Telugu: “యావుండె”
  • Thai: “ยาอุนเด”
  • Tibetan: “ཡོན་དྷི།”
  • Turkish: “Yaounde”
  • Turkish: “Yaoundé”
  • Turkish: “Yaunde”
  • Turkmen: “Ýaunde”
  • Twi: “Yaoundé”
  • Tyap: “Yawunde”
  • Udmurt: “Яунде”
  • Ukrainian: “Яунде”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Jaunde”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Yaoundé”
  • Urdu: “یاؤندے”
  • Uzbek: “Yaunde”
  • Venetian: “Yaoundé”
  • Veps: “Jaunde”
  • Vietnamese: “Jaunde”
  • Vietnamese: “Yaoundé”
  • Volapük: “Yaoundé”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jaunde”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yaoundé”
  • Welsh: “Yaoundé”
  • Welsh: “Yaunde”
  • Western Armenian: “Եաունտէ”
  • Western Frisian: “Yaoundé”
  • Western Mari: “Яунде”
  • Western Panjabi: “یاونڈی”
  • Wolof: “Yaunde”
  • Wu Chinese: “雅温得”
  • Yiddish: “יאונדע”
  • Yoruba: “Yaoundé”
  • Yue Chinese: “耶溫得”
  • Yue Chinese: “雅溫得”
  • Zulu: “i-Yaoundé”
  • “Yaundé”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Yaoundé”. Photo: Bdx, CC BY-SA 4.0.