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Cameroon. history of Cameroon, a survey of the notable events and people in the history of Cameroon, from the 5th century ce to the present day. Cameroon is located at the junction of western and central Africa. The country’s name is derived from Rio dos Camarões (“River of Prawns”)—the name given to the Wouri River estuary by ...
Cameroon - Diversity, Music, Cuisine: Each major ethnic group of the country has developed its own culture. The vigorous rhythms played on the drums by the people of the southern forest region contrast with the flute music of northern Cameroonians. In the Adamawa area, the Muslim Fulani produce elaborately worked leather goods and ornate calabashes (gourds used as containers), and the Kirdi ...
French Cameroon achieved independence on January 1, 1960. After Guinea, it was the second of France's colonies in Sub-Saharan Africa to become independent. On 21 February 1960, the new nation held a constitutional referendum, approving a new constitution. On 5 May 1960, Ahmadou Ahidjo became president.
喀麥隆共和國 （法語： République du Cameroun ；英語： Republic of Cameroon ），通稱 喀麥隆 （法語： Cameroun ；英語： Cameroon ），是位於 非洲 中西部的 單一制共和國 。. 喀麥隆西方與 奈及利亞 接壤，東北與東邊分別和 乍德 與 中非共和國 相靠，南方則與 赤道幾內 ...
Cameroon. Cameroon is Africa's throbbing heart, a sultry mosaic of active volcanoes, white-sand beaches, thick rainforest and magnificent parched landscapes broken up by the bizarre rock formations of the Sahel. With both Francophone and Anglophone regions, not to mention some 250 local languages, the country is a vast ethnic and linguistic ...
Cameroon has a developing market economy based largely on petroleum and agriculture but with a growing services sector. It is a unitary multiparty republic with two legislative houses; its head of state is the president and its head of government the prime minister.
Cameroon borders Nigeria in north west, the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in south, the Central African Republic and Chad in east, and it has a narrow lakefront at Lake Chad in north. With an area of 475,650 km², the country is almost as large as Spain or slightly larger than the US state of California.
