Country Details

Cameroon is located in West Africa with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean and a triangular shape wedged between West and Central Africa. The country has borders with the Central African Republic in the East, Chad in the North-east, Nigeria in the North, Republic of the Congo in the South-east, and Equatorial Guinea and Gabon in the South. Meadows and pastures take up a limited land area while forests and woodlands cover more than half of the country. The land is diverse with coastal plains in the South-west, dissected plateau in the central region, mountains in the West and plains in the North. The low coastal plains in the South are covered with equatorial rain forests extending to the river Sanaga. Mount Cameroon is the highest summit in sub-Saharan West Africa. The climate is tropical along the coast and semiarid and hot in the North. It varies depending on the terrain.