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Cameroon   /kˈæmərˌun/   Listen
Cameroon

noun
1.
An inactive volcano in western Cameroon; highest peak on the West African coast.
2.
A republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960.  Synonyms: Cameroun, Republic of Cameroon.



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capital of Cameroon


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... expressed in influential circles in Germany at the failure of the plans for capturing the trade of the Benue district served to show the magnitude of the interests which had there been looked upon as prospectively and exclusively German. The delimitation of the new British territory with the Cameroon territory and its north-eastern extension to Lake Chad was effected by an Anglo-German agreement of 1886, Germany gaining part of the upper Benue and the southern shore of Lake Chad. In all, the territories controlled by the British Company ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose


Words linked to "Cameroon" :   Africa, volcano, African country, African nation, Yaounde, Cameroon franc, Douala


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