Cameroon – A Place

Summary

  • Politics
    • Name: Cameroon
    • Capital: Yaounde
    • 2 Letter Code: CM
    • 3 Letter Code: CMR
  • Land
    • Contenent: Africa
    • Region: Middle Africa
    • Total Land: 475,442 (183,569)
    • Land: 472,710 (182,510)
    • Water: 2,730 (1,050)
  • People
    • Population: 17,340,702
    • Birth Rate: 33.89 per 1,000
    • Death Rate: 13.47 per 1,000
    • Infant Mortality: 68.26 per 1,000
    • Literacy: 71.00%
  • Economy
    • Agriculture: 44.8%%
    • Industry: 17%%
    • Service: 38.2%%

Map

Cameroon is officially the Republic of Cameroon. It is a central African country on the west coastline of Africa. Its diverse geography includes coast, desert, mountains, rain forest, and savanna.

History

Coming soon.

Modern Times

The population of Cameroon is 24 million people. Cameroon Highlanders are the dominating ethnicity in Cameroon (31%) and others are Equatorial antu (19%), Kirdi (11%), Fulani (10%), other African (13%), Northwestern Bantu (8%), Eastern Nigritic (7%), and less than 1% being non-African.

English and African are the two official languages of Cameroon, with 24 other major African language groups being spoken in the country as well.

Roman Catholic is the most prevalent religion and forms 38.4% of the population. Other religions include Protestant (26.3%), Muslims (20.9%), other Christian (4.5%), none (3.2%), and animist and other religions making up the total population (6.6%).

Genetics

This section is under development.

mtDNA

Genographic ProjectGeno 2.0 Data

Data from Geno 2.0 is derived from the The National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project — the DAR. The Hg ID is specific to this site and is used to protect the identities of those who take part in Genographic research. Birth Country, Mother's Birth Country, and Maternal Grandmother's Birth Country have been normalized from DAR database fields. The Maternal Origin is determined based on the three previous fields.

Note: Geno 2.0 results currently use Phylotree build 16. I am working on changing results over to build 17.

Hg ID Hg Build 16 Birth Country Mother's Birth Country Maternal Grandmother's Birth Country
Hap10066597 L0a1e Cameroon Cameroon Cameroon
Hap10069653 L3f1b1a Cameroon Cameroon Unspecified
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Sources and Resources

Background

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Journal Articles

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