A report on Cameroon
Country in west-central Africa.
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Lake Nyos
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Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about 315 km northwest of Yaoundé, the capital.
Unitary state
1 linksState governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority.
State governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority.
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Bamum script
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The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, king of King of Bamum (now western Cameroon) at the turn of the 19th century.
1984 Cameroonian coup d'état attempt
2 linksAn attempted coup d'état occurred in Cameroon in 1984, when presidential palace guards unsuccessfully tried to overthrow President Paul Biya.
Rainforest
1 linksRainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
Tropical rainforests exist in Southeast Asia (from Myanmar (Burma)) to the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka; also in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Cameroon to the Congo (Congo Rainforest), South America (e.g. the Amazon rainforest), Central America (e.g. Bosawás, the southern Yucatán Peninsula-El Peten-Belize-Calakmul), Australia, and on Pacific Islands (such as Hawaii).
Islam in Cameroon
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Abram Petrovich Gannibal
1 linksRussian military engineer, general-in-chief, and nobleman of Cameroonian origin.
Russian military engineer, general-in-chief, and nobleman of Cameroonian origin.
Recent research has established that the general was born in Central Africa, in an area bordering Lake Chad in present-day Cameroon.
Alexander Pushkin
1 linksRussian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.
Later research by the scholars Dieudonné Gnammankou and Hugh Barnes eventually conclusively established that Gannibal was instead born in Central Africa, in an area bordering Lake Chad in modern-day Cameroon.
Fon (title)
0 linksA Fon is a chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon, especially among the Widikum, Tikar, and Bamiléké peoples of the Bamenda grass fields (the Northwest, West Region) and the Lebialem of the South West Region.
National Day (Cameroon)
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The National Day (Fête Nationale) of Cameroon, also known as Unity Day (fête nationale de l’unité), is celebrated annually on 20 May.