Countries

Cameroon

Cameroon reaches from the Gulf of Guinea north to Lake Chad, between Nigeria and Central Africa. Formed in 1960 and 1961 from French and British territories, it keeps both French and English as official languages.

A lone tree silhouetted against a hazy orange sunrise at Rhumsiki, northern Cameroon, with figures in the distance

Rhumsiki, in the Mandara Mountains

Photo: The Taxi Photographer, CC BY-SA 4.0

Green for the forests of the south, yellow for the savanna of the north, red for unity between them, and the star for the nation's unity. The star was added in 1975.

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