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Mount Cameroon, Dja Faunal Reserve, Chappal Waddi and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Cameroon and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Active volcano in Cameroon near the Gulf of Guinea
An active stratovolcano in Cameroon's Southwest Region, beside the city of Buea, near the Gulf of Guinea. It is also called Cameroon Mountain, Fako, or, in the local language, Mongo ma Ndemi.
Photo: Eric Joel MAMA NKE, CC BY-SA 4.0
World Heritage
Reserve in southeastern Cameroon
A UNESCO World Heritage Site in southeastern Cameroon, listed in 1987 for the variety of its species, for its five threatened species of mammals, and for how undisturbed it is.
Photo: Earwig at German Wikipedia, Attribution
Mountain in Nigeria
At 2,419 m (7,936 ft), the highest point of Nigeria and of West Africa. Its original, indigenous name is "Gang Peak", and it is steeped in fascinating old Mambilla myths.
Photo: Dotun55, CC BY-SA 4.0
Crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
A crater lake about 315 km (196 mi) northwest of Yaoundé, the capital, in Cameroon's Northwest Region. The lake is deep and sits high up the flank of a volcano, no longer active, in the Oku volcanic plain, on the Cameroon line of volcanic activity.
Photo: Ppong.it, CC0
Volcano in Cameroon
Also spelled Muanenguba, a volcano in Cameroon's Southwest Province, home to the Manenguba shrew and to plants found nowhere else.
Photo: KLO.J, CC BY 2.0
Bight in the Gulf of Guinea
Also called the Bight of Bonny, a bight off the coast of west-central Africa, in the far east of the Gulf of Guinea. It has sometimes been called the Bight of Africa, because here the continent's western coast turns most sharply, from running north–south to running east–west.
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
Mountain in Cameroun
Also written Mont Koupé, a plutonic mountain on Cameroon's Western High Plateau, belonging to the Cameroon line of volcanoes. At 2,064 metres (6,772 ft), it is the tallest of the Bakossi Mountains.
Photo: http://maps-for-free.com/ annotated by Aymatth2, CC BY 3.0
Volcano in Cameroon
Also called Kilum Mountain, the largest volcano of the Oku Massif, on the Cameroon Volcanic Line, in the Oku region of Cameroon's Western High Plateau. It is the second-highest mountain in mainland Central Africa.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Nickaj assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
Hydroelectric power plant of the Sanaga River in Edéa, Cameroon
A hydroelectric plant on the Sanaga River near Edéa, Cameroon, able to generate 264 megawatts (354,000 hp), enough for over 136,600 homes.
Photo: George Rodger, Public domain
Region of Cameroon
Also called the Southern Cameroon Plateau, Cameroon's main geographical feature, lying south of the Adamawa Plateau and southeast of the Cameroon Range.
Photo: Unknown, Attribution
Officially the Republic of Cameroon, a Central African country. Its neighbours are Nigeria on the west and north, Chad on the northeast, the Central African Republic on the east, and on the south Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. Its coast lies on the Atlantic, along the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea.
Officially The Republic of Cameroon. Known locally as Cameroon, Cameroun.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Mount Cameroon, Dja Faunal Reserve, Chappal Waddi and Lake Nyos and others. Dja Faunal Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Cameroon that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Dja Faunal Reserve. That is not the full count for Cameroon, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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