Cameroon
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- CM
- ISO alpha-3
- CMR
- ISO numeric
- 120
- FIPS 10-4
- CM
- GeoNames ID
- 2233387
Key facts
- Capital
- Yaounde
- Area
- 475,440 km²
- Population
- 25,216,237
- Currency
- Franc (XAF)
- Calling code
- +237
- Top-level domain
- .cm
- Official languages
- en-CM,fr-CM
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 6
- Longitude
- 12.5
- Min latitude
- 1.6545512900001285
- Min longitude
- 8.505056186000047
- Max latitude
- 13.081140646000023
- Max longitude
- 16.20772342900011
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/CM?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 475440,
"capital": "Yaounde",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "XAF",
"iso3_code": "CMR",
"iso_code": "CM",
"name": "Cameroon",
"population": 25216237
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/CM/regions/v1/cities?country=CM/v1/postal-codes?country=CM/v1/timezones?country=CM
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- الكاميرون
- Chinese
- 喀麦隆
- English
- Cameroon
- French
- Cameroun
- German
- Kamerun
- Hindi
- कैमरून
- Italian
- Camerun
- Japanese
- カメルーン
- Korean
- 카메룬
- Portuguese
- Camarões
- Russian
- Камерун
- Spanish
- Camerún
- Total language variants
- 139
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Douala | UTC+01:00 | UTC+01:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Centre Region
- North Region
- Littoral Region
- Far North Region
- North-West Region
- West Region
- South-West Region
- East Region
- South Region
- Adamaoua Region
10 of 10 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Douala | 1,338,082 |
| Yaoundé | 1,299,369 |
| Bamenda | 420,445 |
| Bafoussam | 373,268 |
| Maroua | 314,122 |
| Ngaoundéré | 238,196 |
| Kumba | 225,046 |
| Nkongsamba | 162,309 |
| Buea | 140,533 |
| Kousséri | 139,024 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 14,374
- First-level regions
- 10
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 139
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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