Cameroun

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Cameroon

Geography of Cameroon

Cameroon is a central western Africa country, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. It is slightly larger than California: 475 440 km2.

Its capital is Yaoundé but the largest city is Douala with approximately 2 millions inhabitants.
The main rivers are the Benue, Nyong, and Sanaga.

Its climate varies with terrain, from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north.
It is composed of wet and forested coastal plain in southwest, of plateau dominated by rain forests in center, of mountains (including Mount Cameroon, an active volcano) in west and of savana grasslands in north.
That is why Cameroon is often called the "Africa in miniature", its vegetation is pretty various, and its clilmate presents all the variations existing on the African continent.

Cameroon's ethnic composition is diverse with approximately 250 ethnic groups. The principal ethnic groups consist of:
# the Cameroon Highlanders in the northwest who account for 31% of the population
# the Equatorial Bantu for 19%
# the Kirdi (non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples) in the northern deserts and central highlands for 11%
# the Fulani (Islamic peoples) in the northern semi-arid regions for 10%
# the Northwestern Bantu for 8%
# the Nigritic for 7%
# Ethnic aliens include African tribal groups such as the Hausa, Ibo, Ewe, and Europeans which include French, German, American, British, Canadian, Greeks, Syrians, Cypriots and Lebanese. Some 5,000 Pygmies still live in the southeastern and coastal rainforests.

Thus, although te official languages are French and English (with French being the dominant), some 80 major African languages are spoken by the diverse ethnic tribal groups.

Just as ethnic groups and languagues, religions are various too. Indeed 40% of the population is christians (with a division between inhabitants of the former British colony who are protestants and those from the former French colony

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