!!!Cameroon: Geography
||Location|Central Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria
||Geographic Coordinates|6 00 N, 12 00 E[{GoogleMap location='6.0,12.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''475,440 sq km\\''land: ''472,710 sq km\\''water: ''2,730 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 475440\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 475442\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 475440\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 475440\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 476350\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 475440''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''5,018 km\\''border countries: ''Central African Republic 901 km, Chad 1,116 km, Republic of the Congo 494 km, Equatorial Guinea 183 km, Gabon 349 km, Nigeria 1,975 km
||Coastline|402 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Atlantic Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Fako 4,095 m (on Mt. Cameroon)
||Highest Mountains|According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Cameroon Mountain 4070 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]:Cameroon Mountain 4040 m; Mont Mekoua 2703 m; Neshele 2621 m; Chappal Waddi 2419 m; Lekwé Khi 2271 m\\__List verified partially__\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Africa/Cameroon/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north
||Natural Hazards|volcanic activity with periodic releases of poisonous gases from Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun volcanoes volcanism: Mt. Cameroon (elev. 4,095 m), which last erupted in 2000, is the most frequently active volcano in West Africa; lakes in Oku volcanic field have released fatal levels of gas on occasion, killing some 1,700 people in 1986
||Natural Resource|petroleum, bauxite, iron ore, timber, hydropower
||Land Use|''arable land: ''13.04%\\''permanent crops: ''2.94%\\''other: ''84.01% (2011)
||Climate|varies with terrain, from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north
||Irrigated Land|256.5 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|285.5 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|waterborne diseases are prevalent; deforestation; overgrazing; desertification; poaching; overfishing
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|Douala; Yaounde; Garoua; Kousseri; Bamenda\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Africa/Cameroon/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|sometimes referred to as the hinge of Africa; throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano