Bakassi
Sign in to savethumb|The Nigeria-[[Cameroon border region on the coast from a 1963 map, with Bakassi peninsula in the middle]]
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Bakassi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- LGA
- Settlement.image_map
- Un-bakassi.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Bakassi
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Cameroon
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South West Region
- Settlement.leader_title
- Local Government Chairman
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 665
- Settlement.population_total
- 150,000 - 300,000
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 8
- Settlement.mapframe wikidata
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- village
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- Geography and economy
- History
- Population
- Territorial dispute
- ICJ verdict
- Resolution
- Nigerian withdrawal and low-level insurgency
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|The Nigeria-[[Cameroon border region on the coast from a 1963 map, with Bakassi peninsula in the middle]]
Bakassi is a peninsula on the Gulf of Guinea. It lies between the Cross River estuary, near the city of Calabar and the Rio del Ray estuary on the east. It is governed by Cameroon, following the transfer of sovereignty from neighbouring Nigeria as a result of a judgment by the International Court of Justice. On 22 November 2007, the Nigerian Senate rejected the transfer, since the Greentree Agreement ceding the area to Cameroon was contrary to Section 12(1) of the 1999 Constitution. Regardless, the territory was completely ceded to Cameroon on 14 August 2008, exactly two years after the first part of it was transferred.