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Cameroun (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 06 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 6.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 012 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 12.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Earliest inhabitants of region were Pygmies; Bantu-speakers followed and then Muslim Fulani 11th-19th centuries; was part of Cameroons 1869-1922, under German, later Anglo-French control; united with former British trust territory, S Cameroons, in 1961; official languages are French and English, though 24 major African languages are also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Cameroun (preferred,C,V,Danish)
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| Cameroun (French-P,U,N)
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| République du Cameroun (C,V,O,French,U,N)
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| Cameroon (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Cameroon (Tagalog)
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| Cameroon (Vietnamese)
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| Cameroon (Danish)
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| Cameroon (Scots Gaelic)
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| Cameroon (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Cameroon (Pampanga)
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| Republic of Cameroon (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Kamerun (C,O,Maltese)
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| Kamerun (Indonesian)
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| Kamerun (Azerbaijani)
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| Kamerun (Croatian)
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| Kamerun (Bosnian)
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| Kamerun (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Kamerun (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Kamerun (Finnish)
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| Kamerun (Swedish)
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| Kamerun (Polish)
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| Kamerun (Slovak)
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| Kamerun (Slovene)
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| Kamerun (Basque)
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| Kamerun (German-P,U,N)
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| Kamerun (Low German)
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| Kamerun (Albanian)
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| Kamerun (Czech)
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| Kamerun (Faroese)
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| Kamerun (Estonian)
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| Kamerun (Turkish)
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| Kamerun (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Kamerun (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Kamerun (Norwegian)
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| Kamerun (Northern Sami)
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| Kamerun (Ido)
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| Camerún (C,O,Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Camerún (Aragonese)
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| Camerún (Asturian)
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| Camerún (Galician)
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| República del Camerún (C,O,Spanish,U)
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| Kameroen (C,O,Dutch-P,U,N)
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| Kameroen (Afrikaans)
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| Camarão (C,O,Portuguese-P,U,N)
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| Камерун (C,V,Tajik)
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| Камерун (Serbian)
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| Камерун (Macedonian)
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| Камерун (Kazakh)
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| Камерун (Bulgarian)
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| Камерун (Russian-P,U)
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| Камерун (Ukrainian)
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| Камерун (Belarusian)
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| Республика Камерун (C,V,Russian,U)
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| 喀麦隆 (C,V,Chinese-P,U)
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| 喀麦隆共和国 (C,V,Chinese,U)
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| اكًاميرون (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً اكًاميرون (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| CMR (C,O,ISO3L)
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| CM (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO120 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Cameroonian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| קמרון (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Camarões (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Camarún (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Cameron (C,U,Occitan)
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| Cameron (Arpitan)
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| Cameronia (C,U,Latin)
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| Camerun (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Camerun (Ilocano)
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| Camerun (Romanian)
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| Camerun (Catalan)
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| Camerun (Italian)
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| Camerun (Romansh)
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| Camerun (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Camerún - Cameroun (C,U,Galician)
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| Camerŵn (C,U,Welsh)
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| Ca-mơ-run (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ca-mơ-run (Cameroon) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Federal Republic of Cameroon (C,U)
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| Federation of the Camerouns (C,U)
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| i-Cameroon (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kaameruun (C,U,Somali)
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| Kamaru (C,U,Hausa)
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| Kamerona (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Kameroun (C,U,Breton)
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| Kameroun (Cornish)
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| Kamerún (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Kamerûn (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Kamerūna (C,U,Latvian)
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| Kamerunän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Kamerūnas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Kamerûne (C,U,Sangho)
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| Kamerune (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Kameruni (C,U,Rundi)
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| Kameruni (Bambara)
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| Kameruni (Albanian)
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| Kameruni (Kikuyu)
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| Kameruni (Shona)
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| Kameruni (Swahili (generic))
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| Kamerun nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Kameruno (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Kameruun (C,U,Fulah)
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| Kameruuni (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Kamɛrun (C,U,Akan)
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| Kamɛrune (C,U,Lingala)
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| Kemaluni (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Khameruni (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Orílẹ́ède Kamerúúnì (C,U,Yoruba)
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| República dos Camarões (C,U,Portuguese)
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| République Fédérale du Cameroun (C,U)
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| République Unie du Cameroun (C,U)
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| Y Camerŵn (C,U,Welsh)
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| カメルーン (C,U,Japanese)
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| കാമറൂണ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ಕ್ಯಾಮರೂನ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| كامېرون (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Կամերուն (C,U,Armenian)
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| کېمرون (C,U,Pashto)
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| الكاميرون (C,U,Arabic)
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| កាមេរូន (C,U,Khmer)
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| केमेरून (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| ประเทศแคเมอรูน (C,U,Thai)
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| கேமரூன் (C,U,Tamil)
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| कामेरान (C,U,Hindi)
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| Καμερούν (C,U,Greek)
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| कामेरून (C,U,Marathi)
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| 카메룬 (C,U,Korean)
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| קאמרון (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ካሜሩን (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ካሜሩን (Amharic)
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| კამერუნი (C,U,Georgian)
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| كاميرون (C,U,Arabic)
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| ຄາເມລູນ (C,U,Lao)
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| کامرون (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ক্যামেরুন (C,U,Bengali)
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| แคเมอรูน (C,U,Thai)
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| කැමරූන් (C,U,Sinhala)
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| कॅमेरून (C,U,Marathi)
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| કૅમરૂન (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ಕ್ಯಾಮರೋನ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ကင်မရွန်း (C,U,Burmese)
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| कैमरून (C,U,Hindi)
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| ཀ་མེ་རུན། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| کیمرون (C,U,Urdu)
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| カメルーン共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| کامیروون (C,U,Kurdish)
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| కెమరూన్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| क्यामेरून (C,U,Nepali)
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| କାମେରୁନ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| Cameroon, United Republic of (H,V)
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| République unie du Cameroun (H,V)
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| United Republic of Cameroon (H,V)
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............ | until 1984 |
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Additional Parents: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1960 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| trust territory (H) |
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French, 1946-1960 |
| mandate (H) |
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French, 1922-1946 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Yaoundé .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Cameroun, Centre) [1088293] |
| historical connection .... |
Kotoko Kingdom .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Africa) [8711694] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1995 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1960 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Federal Republic of Cameroon.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 2233387 |
| Federation of the Camerouns.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 2233387 |
| République Fédérale du Cameroun.......... |
[VP] |
| ..................................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 2233387 |
| République Unie du Cameroun.......... |
[VP] |
| ............................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 2233387 |
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