Cameroon Geography

Cameroon Map

Topography of cameroon

The State of Cameroon is located in West Africa . It is washed in the west by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean ( Gulf of Guinea ). The coastline is about 402 km.

The territory of the country lies north of the equator . The extreme southern point is less than 200 km away from it. Area: total - 475.440 km². The highest point in the country is Mount Fako ( FR. Fako ) - 4040 m. It borders in the northwest with Nigeria , (the length of the border is 1690 km), in the north and northeast - with Chad , (the length of the border is 1094 km), in the east - with the Central African Republic (border length 797 km), in the south - with Gabon (border length 298 km), Congo (border length 523 km), and Equatorial Guinea (border length 189 km).

The relief of Cameroon is characterized by the alternation of mountains, plateaus and plains. Most of the Atlantic coast is occupied by accumulative lowlands (sometimes swampy) with wide estuaries . Standing apart on the coast is the active trachybasalt stratovolcano Cameroon (4040 m). South of the Lobe River, the coast becomes high and rocky. In the central part of the country, block mountains Adamava rise up to 2460 m high (Chabal Mbabo), complicated by young lava covers and cones of extinct volcanoes. South of these mountains are basement denudation plateaus, which occupy most of Cameroon. To the north of the Adamava plateau lies an elevated stratum plain bordering in the west with the low-altitude mountains of Mandara . The extreme north of the country is occupied by the lake-accumulative plain of the basin of Lake Chad , which is flooded in the rainy season. The extreme southeast of Cameroon lies on the outskirts of the Congo Basin .