Cameroon
Cameroon (officially Republic of Cameroon) is a country in Middle Africa, with its capital at Yaoundé, and is home to roughly 29.1M people.
Its official languages are English, French; the currency in circulation is Central African CFA franc (Fr); people from here are called Cameroonian.
- »Both English and French are official, a legacy of the territory being split between Britain and France after the First World War.
Cameroon touches six neighbours: Central African Republic to the east, Chad to the northeast, Equatorial Guinea to the southwest, Gabon to the south, Nigeria to the northwest and Republic of the Congo to the south. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Yaoundé is the political capital, but the port of Douala is larger and carries most of the country's trade.
465,652 km² (179,789 sq mi), 53rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Papua New Guinea.
Population 29,123,744, 52nd of 198 on file. That averages 63 per km² (162 per sq mi).
Pan-African green, red and gold with a single gold star of unity, a country often called 'Africa in miniature' for containing beach, desert, mountain, rainforest and savannah.