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Cameroon: map and facts
Cameroon is in Middle Africa. It has about 29.9 million people (2025), the 51st largest population. It covers 475,442 km², the 53rd largest by area. That is about 63 people per km². Its highest point is Mont Cameroun, at 4,040 m. The longest river on its map is the Chari, 1,400 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 29,879,337 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 475,442 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Yaoundé
- Highest point: Mont Cameroun, 4,040 m (CIA World Factbook (archived))
- Forest: 40.7% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Cameroon, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Chari: 1,400 km
- Benue: 1,370 km
- Logone: 1,000 km
- Sanaga: 918 km
- Dja: 720 km
- Mbam: 425 km
- Lom: 380 km
Also on the map: Kadéi, Aina and Vina.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Mont Cameroun: 4,040 m (its highest point)
- Mount Oku: 3,011 m
- Mont Ngaoui: 1,410 m
Mountain ranges: Mbang Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Adamawa Plateau.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): evergreen broadleaf forest 46.2%, savanna 26%, farmland 12.2%, wooded savanna 7.1%, grassland 3.3%, farmland with natural plants 2%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plateaus 52%, hills 28.5%, mountains 11%, plains 8.5%.
Forests covered 40.7% of its land in 2024, down from 47.6% in 1990 (World Bank).
Neighbours
Cameroon shares land borders with Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria and Republic of the Congo on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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