Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Nkambe
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Traditional dance Nkambe Cameroon 1990.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Traditional dance display in Nkambe-town, around 1990 in dry season
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northwest Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Division (County)
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mantungia
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2001
- Settlement.population_total
- 292,900
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Cameroon
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Cameroon
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
- Settlement.blank_info
- Cwb
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- Elevation
- 1078
- Image
- Nkambe Town 2.jpg
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- Nkambé
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Nkambe is a city in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. It is the headquarters of the Mantungia department. Nkambe Central is also the name of one of the five communes in Donga-Mantung. Nkambe lies at the north edge of the Bamenda Grassfields, on the northeast arc of the Ring Road, farthest from Bamenda. The Nigerian border is only 25 or 40 km away, but roads toward the border are undeveloped jungle tracks. thumb|right|The Chua Chua Botanical Gardens, established by Farmer Tantoh, are a popular attraction in Nkambe.
==People== Most of the people in Nkambe Central commune are Wimbum - the three clans which speak the Limbum language. Nkambe Central contains the northwest part of Wimbum-land, including the villages of Kungi, Konchep, Binshua, Bih, Saah, Wat, Nwangri, Mbaa, Kup, Chup, Bongom, Mbot, Tabenken, Njap/Ngie Binka, Binjeng, and Nkambe-town. Ndu Commune contains the southeast part of Wimbum-land. Most Wimbum are farmers, raising maize, beans, njama-njama, Irish potatoes, cocoyams, plantains, bananas, etc. Scattered Fulani also live in the district, grazing cattle on the grasslands. The population of Nkambe Central was estimated around 170,000 in 2011.
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