Cameroon
Africa · Middle Africa
Key facts
- Capital
- Yaoundé
- Region
- Africa
- Subregion
- Middle Africa
- Population (2025)
- 29.9 million (29,879,337) · rank 51 of 193
- Area (2023)
- 475,442 km² · rank 55 of 193
- People per km²
- 63 (calculated from the two figures above)
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (2025, 2023), CC BY 4.0. data.worldbank.org
Test yourself
The first question is always Cameroon, then four more countries of the same region.
Unfolding the map…
Neighbours on the map
Countries whose outline shares a border with Cameroon in the map data: 7.
- Central African Republic capitals 780 km apart
- Chad capitals 1,000 km apart
- Equatorial Guinea capitals 260 km apart
- Gabon capitals 450 km apart
- Niger capitals 1,490 km apart
- Nigeria capitals 730 km apart
- Republic of the Congo capitals 1,000 km apart
Based on the Natural Earth 1:110m outlines. The 29 states drawn as dots are not counted as neighbours.
The flag
Flags with a similar colour layout, used as wrong options on Hard: Benin, Moldova, Portugal, Sri Lanka.
In the quizzes
The levels on which Cameroon is asked in each selection:
In four languages
| Country | Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Cameroon | Yaoundé |
| Italiano | Camerun | Yaoundé |
| Magyar | Kamerun | Yaoundé |
| Suomi | Kamerun | Yaoundé |