Mbalmayo
Sign in to saveMbalmayo is a town in Cameroon's Centre Region. The town had 60,091 inhabitants in 2012. It is the capital of the Nyong-et-So'o Division It is located at the banks of the Nyong river between Ebolowa and Yaoundé. It is an agricultural centre.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in CM, across 3 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Mbalmayo is referenced by 117 other articles, and connects out to Centre, Nyong River and Cameroon People's Democratic Movement.
It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Centre Region (Cameroon).
Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Mbalmayo
- Region
- Centre
- Country
- Cameroun
- Population
- 82,384
- Timezone
- Africa/Douala
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Mbalmayo
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mbalmayo-cathedral.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Mbalmayo cathedral
- 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
- Centre Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Division
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.population_total
- 60091
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 335
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Cameroon
- Country
- Cameroon
- Located in
- Nyong-et-So'o
- Area
- 650
- Elevation
- 335
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- Nyong-et-So'o
- Official website
- cvuc.cm/national/index.php/fr/carte-communale/region-du-centre/90-association/carte-administrative/289-ngaoundal-28
- Image
- Mbalmayo-cathedral.jpg
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- Mbalmayo
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Economy
- Politics
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- Notable people
- References
Mbalmayo is a town in Cameroon's Centre Region. The town had 60,091 inhabitants in 2012. It is the capital of the Nyong-et-So'o Division It is located at the banks of the Nyong river between Ebolowa and Yaoundé. It is an agricultural centre.
== History== Mbalmayo was founded in 1910, under the German rule of the then Kamerun, by Mbala Meyo, an early ruler of the town. As was the custom before colonialism, the town was named after the chief.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mbalmayo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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