Map of Cameroon

Cameroon is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 6.0° N, 12.0° E. It shares land borders with 6 countries — Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria and Republic of the Congo — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Cameroon is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Cameroon shares land frontiers with the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Cameroon covers about 475,442 km² (183,569 sq mi). That makes it the 53rd-largest country in the world by area and the 24th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 30 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 29,442,327, the 52nd-largest in the world and the 17th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 2.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Cameroon has an average population density of about 62 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 17th by population and 24th by area.

The seat of government is Yaoundé, and the official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr), and the main official languages are English and French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Cameroon carries the ISO country codes CM and CMR, dials on the international calling code +237 and uses the .cm internet domain.

Cameroon shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Nigeria (capital Abuja, about 223,800,000 people), Chad (capital N'Djamena, about 19,340,757 people), Central African Republic (capital Bangui, about 6,470,307 people), Republic of the Congo (capital Brazzaville, about 6,142,180 people), Gabon (capital Libreville, about 2,469,296 people) and Equatorial Guinea (capital Ciudad de la Paz, about 1,668,768 people).

By area, Cameroon is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 6.0° N, 12.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Cameroon within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Yaoundé. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Cameroon lies about 666 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Cameroon keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr).

The official languages are English and French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +237 and websites commonly use the .cm internet domain.

In short, Cameroon is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Yaoundé. Cameroon has a population of about 29,442,327 and covers around 475,442 km² (183,569 sq mi), ranking it 52nd in the world by population and 53rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Cameroon.

The flag of Cameroon is composed of three equal vertical bands of green, red and yellow, with a yellow five-pointed star in the center.

The flag of Cameroon is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.