The Republic of Cameroon (République du Cameroon in French), located in Central Africa, has English and French as official languages.
In addition to its official languages, Cameroon is a linguistic wonderland, with more than 250 local languages spoken by
various ethnic groups.
Cameroon is bordered to the north and north-west by Nigeria, to the north-east and north by Chad, to the east by the Central African Republic, to the south-east by the Republic of Congo. In the south and south-west, Cameroon shares its borders with
Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Gulf of Guinea, respectively.
Its population, estimated at 27,744,989 inhabitants in 2020, is located in area of 475 km2. Cameroon has a political capital city, Yaoundé, and an economic capital hub, Douala. There are 10 regions, namely the Adamawa, Centre, East, Far North, Littoral, North, North-West, West, South and South-West regions.
Cameroon is also popular thanks to the diversity of its cuisine, loved by many foreigners and chefs from all over the world. Cameroon is a secular state, with a population made up of roughly 65.2% Christians (38.4% Catholics and 26.3% Protestants), Orthodox (0.5%) and other Christians (4.0%), Muslims (20.9%), animists (5.9%), freethinkers (3.2%), and other
religions (1%).
In Cameroon, the vegetation is rich and consists of two main areas: a tropical zone and an equatorial zone. The tropical area is largely covered by the wooded savannah of the Adamawa region, full of shrubs, and the grassy savannah of the North region, as well as the steppes of the Far North, with few trees and grasses.
The vegetation in the equatorial area of Cameroon is exceptionally lush green. It includes dense rainforests of the South and East regions made up of very large trees, and gallery forests in the West and North-West regions. The Littoral and South-West regions are famous for their rivers and mangroves. Because of this rich ethnic, linguistic, cultural, culinary, religious,
geographic, geological, and demographic diversity, Cameroon is worthy of its title, ‘Africa in miniature’.
