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West Region (Cameroon)

Index West Region (Cameroon)

The West Region (Région de l'Ouest) is 14,000 km² of territory located in the central-western portion of the Republic of Cameroon. [1]

174 relations: Adamawa Plateau, Adamawa Region, Aerodrome, Ahmadou Ahidjo, Alphabet, Arecaceae, Atlantic Ocean, Bafang, Bafoussam, Baham, Cameroon, Bamboo, Bambouto massif, Bamboutos, Bamenda, Bamileke languages, Bamileke people, Bamum language, Bamum people, Bandjoun, Bangangté, Bangoua, Banyo, Cameroon, Basel Mission, Bauxite, Bean, Beer, Brass, Bronze, Cameroon, Cash crop, Catholic Church, Cattle, Centre Region (Cameroon), Ceramic art, Christianity, Cocoa bean, Coffee, Colocasia, Colocasia esculenta, Cooking banana, Cooperative, Crater lake, Cretaceous, Crystal, Dam, Deforestation, Department (country subdivision), Departments of Cameroon, Domestic airport, Douala, ..., Dschang, Dysentery, Edéa, Embroidery, Fe'fe' language, Fern, Ferrallitisation, Fishing, Food processing, Foumban, Foumban Shear Zone, Foumbot, France, Fula people, Germany, Ghomala' language, Gneiss, Goat, Governor, Granite, Grassfields languages, Haut-Nkam, Hauts-Plateaux, Hepatitis A, Humidity, Hydroelectricity, Ibrahim Njoya, Industry, Instant coffee, Iron, Islam, Jesko von Puttkamer, Jim Balent, Koung-Khi, Koutaba, Kwa languages, Lake Monoun, Littoral Region (Cameroon), Livestock, Maize, Malaria, Mamfe, Manenguba language, Martial law, Mbam River, Mbouda, Medication, Medumba language, Melon, Mengaka language, Menoua, Metamorphic rock, Mica, MiFi, Mountain, Nda’nda’ language, Ndé, Ngiemboon language, Ngomba language, Ngombale language, Nkam River, Northwest Cameroon Company, Northwest Region (Cameroon), Noun (department), Noun River (Cameroon), Nso people, Paul Biya, Peanut, Pig, Plantation, Plate tectonics, Potato, Poultry, Precambrian, Prefect, Prime minister, Raffia palm, Rainforest, Ramadan, Ranch, Regions of Cameroon, Rice, River, Sanaga River, Sanitation, Savanna, Secondary school, Semi-Bantu, Sheep, Slash-and-burn, Social Democratic Front (Cameroon), Soil, Soil erosion, South Cameroon Plateau, Southwest Region (Cameroon), Sultan, Tea, Terrorism, Textile, Tikar language, Tikar people, Tobacco, Transhumance, Tribal chief, Tributary, Tropical rainforest climate, Typhoid fever, Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, Université des Montagnes, University of Dschang, Urban park, Urbanization, Volcanic rock, Volcano, Waterfall, Week, Western High Plateau, Woodworking, World War I, World War II, Wouri River, Yam (vegetable), Yaoundé, Yemba language. Expand index (124 more) »

Adamawa Plateau

The Adamawa Plateau (Massif de l'Adamaoua) is a plateau region in central Africa stretching from south-eastern Nigeria through north-central Cameroon (Adamawa and North Provinces) to the Central African Republic.

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Adamawa Region

The Adamawa Region (Région de l'Adamaoua) is a constituent region of the Republic of Cameroon.

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Aerodrome

An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither.

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Ahmadou Ahidjo

Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (24 August 1924 – 30 November 1989) was the first President of Cameroon, holding the office from 1960 until 1982.

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Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) that is used to write one or more languages based upon the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Bafang

Bafang is a town and commune in Cameroon situated in the Haut-Nkam division of the West Province.

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Bafoussam

Bafoussam is the capital and largest city of the West Region of Cameroon, in the Bamboutos Mountains.

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Baham, Cameroon

Baham (Hom in the local language) is the seat of the Department of Hauts-Plateaux, in the Western Province of Cameroon.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bambouto massif

The Bambouto massif or Bamboutos Mountains is a group of volcanoes based on a swell in the Cameroon Volcanic Line, located in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon, merging in the north with the Oku Volcanic Field.

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Bamboutos

Bamboutos is a department of West Province in Cameroon.

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Bamenda

Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern Cameroon and capital of the Northwest Region.

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Bamileke languages

The Bamileke languages are a group of Eastern Grassfields languages spoken by the Bamileke people in the Western grassfields of Cameroon.

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Bamileke people

The Bamileke is the native group which is now dominant in Cameroon's West and Northwest Regions.

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Bamum language

Bamum (Shüpamom, "Bamum language"), or Bamun, also in its French spelling Bamoun, is an Eastern Grassfields language of Cameroon, with approximately 420,000 speakers.

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Bamum people

The Bamum, sometimes called Bamoum, Bamun, Bamoun, or Mum, are a Bantoid ethnic group of Cameroon with around 215,000 members.

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Bandjoun

Bandjoun (La 'Djo in local language) is a town and commune in the Koung-Khi Department in the West Region of Cameroon.

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Bangangté

Bangangté is a town and commune in Cameroon.

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Bangoua

Bangoua is a village in eastern Ivory Coast.

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Banyo, Cameroon

Banyo is a town and commune in Adamawa Province, Cameroon.

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Basel Mission

The Basel Mission is a Christian missionary society active from 1815 to 2001, when it transferred the operative work to Mission 21, the successor organization of Kooperation Evangelischer Kirchen und Missione (KEM) founded in 2001.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Bean

A bean is a seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used for human or animal food.

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Beer

Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.

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Brass

Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.

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Cameroon

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Cash crop

A cash crop or profit crop is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Centre Region (Cameroon)

The Centre Region (Région du Centre) occupies 69,000 km² of the central plains of the Republic of Cameroon.

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Ceramic art

Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.

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Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

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Colocasia

Colocasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

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Colocasia esculenta

Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro.

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Cooking banana

Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.

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Cooperative

A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".

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Crater lake

A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite, or in the crater left by an artificial explosion caused by humans.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams.

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Deforestation

Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.

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Department (country subdivision)

A department is an administrative or political subdivision in many countries.

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Departments of Cameroon

The Regions of Cameroon are divided into 58 divisions or departments.

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Domestic airport

A domestic airport is an airport that handles only domestic flights—flights within the same country.

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Douala

Douala (Duala) is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital.

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Dschang

Dschang is a city located in the West (Ouest) Province of Cameroon, with an estimated population of 87,000 (est) in 2001, growing dramatically from 21,705 recorded in 1981.

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Dysentery

Dysentery is an inflammatory disease of the intestine, especially of the colon, which always results in severe diarrhea and abdominal pains.

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Edéa

Edéa is a city located along the Sanaga River in Cameroon's Littoral Province.

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Embroidery

Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn.

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Fe'fe' language

Fe'fe' or Fe'efe'e, also known as Nufi and Bafang, is a Bamileke language spoken in Cameroon, around the town of Bafang.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Ferrallitisation

Ferrallitisation is the process in which rock is changed into a soil consisting of clay (kaolinite) and sesquioxides, in the form of hydrated oxides of iron and aluminium.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Food processing

Food processing is the transformation of cooked ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food, or of food into other forms.

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Foumban

Foumban or Fumban is a city in Cameroon, lying north east of Bafoussam.

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Foumban Shear Zone

The Foumban Shear Zone, or Central Cameroon Shear Zone (CCSZ), is a fault zone in Cameroon that has been correlated with the Pernambuco fault in northeastern Brazil, which splays from the Trans-Brazilian Lineament.

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Foumbot

Foumbot is a town and commune in Cameroon.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fula people

The Fula people or Fulani or Fulany or Fulɓe (Fulɓe; Peul; Fulani or Hilani; Fula; Pël; Fulaw), numbering between 40 and 50 million people in total, are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Ghomala' language

Ghɔmálá’, or Bamileke-Banjun (Bamiléké-Bandjoun), is a major Grassfields language of Cameroon.

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Gneiss

Gneiss is a common distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.

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Goat

The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.

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Governor

A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Grassfields languages

The Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of Benue–Congo spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon and a sister group to the Bantu languages.

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Haut-Nkam

Haut-Nkam is a department of West Province in Cameroon.

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Hauts-Plateaux

Hauts-Plateaux is a department of West Province in Cameroon.

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Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A is an infectious disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV).

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Humidity

Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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Ibrahim Njoya

King Ibrahim Mbouombouo Njoya (Bamum:, formerly spelled in Bamum as, and Germanicized as Njoja) in Yaoundé, was 17th in a long dynasty of kings that ruled over Bamum and its people in western Cameroon dating back to the 14th century.

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Industry

Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.

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Instant coffee

Instant coffee, also called soluble coffee, coffee crystals, and coffee powder, is a beverage derived from brewed coffee beans that enables people to quickly prepare hot coffee by adding hot water to the powder or crystals and stirring.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Jesko von Puttkamer

Jesko Albert Eugen von Puttkamer (2 July 1855 in Berlin – 23 January 1917 in Berlin) was a German colonial military chief, and nine times governor of Kamerun.

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Jim Balent

Jim Balent is an American comics artist, writer, and publisher from Pennsylvania.

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Koung-Khi

Koung-Khi is a department of West Province in Cameroon.

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Koutaba

Koutaba is a town and commune in Cameroon.

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Kwa languages

The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory Coast, across southern Ghana, and in central Togo.

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Lake Monoun

Lake Monoun is a lake in West Province, Cameroon, that lies in the Oku Volcanic Field.

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Littoral Region (Cameroon)

The Littoral Region (Région du Littoral) is a region of Cameroon.

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Livestock

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Mamfe

Mamfe or Mamfé is a city in and the capital of Manyu, a division of the Southwest Region in Cameroon.

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Manenguba language

Manenguba, also known as Ngoe or the Mbo cluster, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.

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Martial law

Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civilian functions of government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in an occupied territory. Martial law can be used by governments to enforce their rule over the public.

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Mbam River

The Mbam River is the main tributary of the Sanaga River in Cameroon.

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Mbouda

Mbouda is the capital of the Bamboutos department of West Province, Cameroon.

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Medication

A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Medumba language

Medumba (Mə̀dʉ̂mbɑ̀) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

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Melon

A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet edible, fleshy fruit.

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Mengaka language

Mengaka (Məgaka), or Mengaka Bamileke, is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

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Menoua

Menoua is a department of West Province in Cameroon.

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Metamorphic rock

Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form".

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Mica

The mica group of sheet silicate (phyllosilicate) minerals includes several closely related materials having nearly perfect basal cleavage.

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MiFi

MiFi is a brand name used to describe a wireless router that acts as mobile Wi-Fi hotspot.

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Mountain

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.

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Nda’nda’ language

Nda’nda’ is a Bamileke (Grassfields) language of Cameroon.

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Ndé

NDE is one of the 58 divisions found in Cameroon.

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Ngiemboon language

The Ngiemboon (N'Jhamboon) language, Ngyɛmbɔɔŋ, is one of a dozen Bamileke languages spoken in Cameroon.

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Ngomba language

Ngomba, or Ngomba Bamileke, is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

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Ngombale language

Ngombale, or Ngombale Bamileke, is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

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Nkam River

The Nkam River rises in the Western High Plateau in the West Region of Cameroon, and joins the Makombé River to become the Wouri River.

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Northwest Cameroon Company

The Gesellschaft Nordwest-Kamerun (Northwest Cameroon Company) was a private trading corporation formed in 1899 to exploit natural resources in the Bamoun and Bamileke regions of the German colony of Kamerun.

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Northwest Region (Cameroon)

The Northwest Region, or North-West Region of Cameroon is part of the territory of the Southern Cameroons, found in the western highlands of Cameroon.

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Noun (department)

Noun is a department of West Province in Cameroon.

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Noun River (Cameroon)

The Noun River is a river of the West Province of Cameroon.

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Nso people

The Nso are a people of the Bamenda Grassfields in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.

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Paul Biya

Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo, 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who has been the President of Cameroon since 6 November 1982.

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Peanut

The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.

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Pig

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

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Poultry

Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers.

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Precambrian

The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.

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Prefect

Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival form of praeficere: "put in front", i.e., in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but which, basically, refers to the leader of an administrative area.

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Prime minister

A prime minister is the head of a cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

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Raffia palm

Raffia palms (Raphia) are a genus of about twenty species of palms native to tropical regions of Africa, and especially Madagascar, with one species (R. taedigera) also occurring in Central and South America.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Ramadan

Ramadan (رمضان,;In Arabic phonology, it can be, depending on the region. also known as Ramazan, romanized as Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (Sawm) to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief.

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Ranch

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.

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Regions of Cameroon

The Republic of Cameroon is divided into ten regions: In 2008, the President of the Republic of Cameroon, President Paul Biya signed decrees abolishing "provinces" and replacing them with "regions".

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.

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Sanaga River

The Sanaga River (formerly Zannaga) is a river of South Region, Centre Region and West Region of Cameroon.

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Sanitation

Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Semi-Bantu

Semi-Bantu or Semibantu is a non-genealogical term that refers to those African languages spoken by the inhabitants of the Western grassfields of Cameroon (portions of the Adamawa, West, Northwest, and Southwest provinces) which are Bantoid languages but don't belong to the Bantu languages.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire–fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.

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Social Democratic Front (Cameroon)

The Social Democratic Front (Front Social-Démocratique) is the main opposition party of Cameroon.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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Soil erosion

Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil, one form of soil degradation.

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South Cameroon Plateau

The South Cameroon Plateau or Southern Cameroon Plateau (Plateau Sud-Camerounais) is the dominant geographical feature of Cameroon.

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Southwest Region (Cameroon)

The Southwest Region or South-West Region is a province of Cameroon.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub (bush) native to Asia.

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Terrorism

Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.

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Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).

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Tikar language

Tikar is a Benue–Congo language of uncertain classification spoken in Cameroon by the Bankim, Ngambe and related Tikar peoples as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies.

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Tikar people

The Tikar is a blanket term used for several ethnic groups in Cameroon.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.

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Transhumance

Transhumance is a type of nomadism or pastoralism, a seasonal movement of people with their livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.

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Tribal chief

A tribal chief is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Tropical rainforest climate

A tropical rainforest climate, also known as an equatorial climate, is a tropical climate usually (but not always) found along the equator.

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.

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Union of the Peoples of Cameroon

The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (- UPC) is a political party in Cameroon.

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Université des Montagnes

Université des Montagnes is a private, non-profit university in Bangangté in the West Region of Cameroon, founded in 2000.

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University of Dschang

The University of Dschang is located in the town of Dschang, West Cameroon, about 425 kilometers northwest of Yaoundé.

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Urban park

An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (UK), is a park in cities and other incorporated places to offer recreation and green space to residents of, and visitors to, the municipality.

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Urbanization

Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.

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Volcanic rock

Volcanic rock (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) is a rock formed from magma erupted from a volcano.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Waterfall

A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops in the course of a stream or river.

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Week

A week is a time unit equal to seven days.

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Western High Plateau

The Western High Plateau, Western Highlands or Bamenda Grassfields is a region of Cameroon characterised by high relief, cool temperatures, heavy rainfall and savanna vegetation.

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Woodworking

Woodworking is the activity or skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making (cabinetry and furniture), wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wouri River

The Wouri (also Vouri or Vuri) is a river in Cameroon.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers.

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Yaoundé

Yaoundé (Jaunde) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of approximately 2.5 million, the second largest city in the country after the port city Douala.

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Yemba language

Yɛmba or Yemba, also Yémba or Bamiléké Dschang, is a major Grassfields language of Cameroon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Region_(Cameroon)

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