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Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in the South West region of Cameroon next to the city of Buea near the Gulf of Guinea. Mount Cameroon is also known as Cameroon Mountain or Fako (the name of the higher of its two peaks) or by its indigenous name Mongo ma Ndemi ("Mountain of Greatness"). Mount Cameroon is ranked 22nd by topographic isolation .
Map of Cameroon Location of Cameroon. At 475,440 km 2 (183,570 sq mi), Cameroon is the world's 53rd largest country. It is slightly larger than the nation of Sweden and the US state of California. It is comparable in size to Papua New Guinea. Cameroon's landmass is 472,710 km 2 (182,510 sq mi), with 2,730 km 2 (1,050 sq mi) of water.
Map of the Gulf of Guinea, showing the chain of islands formed by the Cameroon volcanic line. The Cameroon line (French: Ligne du Cameroun, Portuguese: Linha dos Camarões, Spanish: cordillera de Camerún) is a 1,600 km (1,000 mi) long chain of volcanoes that includes islands in the Gulf of Guinea and mountains on the African mainland, from Mount Cameroon on the coast towards Lake Chad on the ...
The ecoregion includes the distinct montane forests on the higher elevations of two volcanic peaks, Mount Cameroon, which lies in Cameroon near the coast, and Bioko, a volcanic island to the southwest in Equatorial Guinea . The montane forests occur as low as 500 meters elevation on Mount Cameroon. They also occur above 1500 meters elevation on ...
The geology of Cameroon is almost universally Precambrian metamorphic and igneous basement rock, formed in the Archean as part of the Congo Craton and the Central African Mobile Zone and covered in laterite, recent sediments and soils. Some parts of the country have sequences of sedimentary rocks from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic as ...
The Cameroon Highlands form the boundary between the Guinean and Northern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic ecoregions. The highest peak within the ecoregion is Mount Oku (3,011 metres (9,879 ft)). Mount Cameroon is highest mountain in the chain, but its high-elevation forests are designated a separate ecoregion.
An enlargeable topographic map of Cameroon. Geography of Cameroon. Cameroon is: a country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Africa. Middle Africa; West Africa; Time zone: West Africa Time ; Extreme points of Cameroon High: Fako on Mount Cameroon 4,040 m (13,255 ft) Low: Bight of Bonny 0 m; Land boundaries: 4,591 km Nigeria ...
Tourism in Cameroon. Tourists climbing Mount Cameroon, Southwest Province. Tourism in Cameroon is a growing but relatively minor industry. Since the 1970s, the government of Cameroon has cultivated the industry by creating a ministry of tourism and by encouraging investment by airlines, hotels, and travel agencies.