Kousséri
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Kousséri (from quṣūr meaning "palaces"), founded and known as Mser in the indigenous Mser language, is a city in Far North Province, Cameroon. It is the capital of the Logone-et-Chari department. It is a market town, and its population has recently been swollen by refugees from Chad. It had a population of 89,123 at the 2005 Census. The majority of the population are Shuwa Arabs with Chadian Arabic used as the lingua franca.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kousséri
- Region
- Extrême-Nord
- Country
- Cameroun
- Population
- 139,024
- Timezone
- Africa/Douala
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Kousséri
- Settlement.other_name
- Mser, Fort Fureau
- Settlement.native_name
- قصور
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Wahid_at_sultanate_of_Kousséri.JPG
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Cameroon
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Cameroon
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Cameroon
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Far North Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Division
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Logone-et-Chari
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 89,123 (Census)
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
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Encyclopedic overview
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Kousséri (from quṣūr meaning "palaces"), founded and known as Mser in the indigenous Mser language, is a city in Far North Province, Cameroon. It is the capital of the Logone-et-Chari department. It is a market town, and its population has recently been swollen by refugees from Chad. It had a population of 89,123 at the 2005 Census. The majority of the population are Shuwa Arabs with Chadian Arabic used as the lingua franca.
It forms a transborder agglomeration with the city of N'Djamena, capital of Chad, from which it is separated by the Logone River and the Chari River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kousséri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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