Camerún

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Douala, Garoua, Bamenda — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Yaoundé spreads across seven hills in the country's central highlands, its French-language institutions reflecting the colonial legacy of a country that was divided between French and British administration in 1919 — a division that created the anglophone-francophone tension still central to Cameroon's political life.

Los principales idiomas hablados son francés, inglés, que reflejan el patrimonio cultural del país y abren puertas a una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Camerún se contacta mediante el código +237. Cameroon is described as 'Africa in miniature' for good reason — its 275 ethnic groups speaking over 280 languages inhabit ecosystems ranging from equatorial rainforest to Saharan semi-desert, with the Pygmy peoples of the south and the Fulani herders of the north representing cultural traditions separated by more than geography.

Camerún comparte sus fronteras con Gabon, Nigeria, República del Congo, Guinea Ecuatorial, República Centroafricana, Chad. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+01:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Ndolé — a bitterleaf stew with groundnuts and shrimp — is considered Cameroon's national dish, but the country's cooking varies so dramatically between north and south that sharing a table is itself a cultural negotiation, with the fish-smoking traditions of the coast utterly unlike the grain-and-sorghum cooking of the Sahel fringe.

Football is Cameroon's most passionate export, and the Indomitable Lions' run to the 1990 World Cup quarter-finals — the first African team to reach that stage — with Roger Milla's corner-flag dance becoming one of the tournament's defining images, remains the reference point against which all subsequent achievements are measured.

Mount Cameroon at 4,040 metres is West Africa's highest peak and one of the continent's most active volcanoes, erupting as recently as 2012 — its lower slopes receive among the highest rainfall in Africa, creating a biodiversity hotspot where lowland gorillas and forest elephants still survive in diminishing fragments of ancient forest.