Cameroon
Imagine beaches, mountains, beautiful stone buildings and a refreshing and relaxingly cool climate. These are all descriptions of Cameroon, the gem of central Africa. Cameroon occupies about 180,000 square meters of land, and has approximately 20,000,000 people called Cameroonians. The capital city, Yaoundé, is the largest city in the country. Cameroonians speak English and French, there are also about twenty-seven other tribal languages (Edman, 2014).
Physical characteristics
Cameroon is sometimes described as "Africa in miniature" because it has all of the major climates and vegetation of Africa: mountains, desert, rain forest, savanna grassland, and ocean coastland. Their natural resources include oil, timber, hydroelectric power, natural gas, cobalt, nickel. It has a tropical climate that would be great for beaches, but since it is in central Africa, it has none (Our-Africa Climate and Agriculture).
Economy
On the plateau land of the south, coffee, sugar and tobacco are important cash crops. On the coast, the climate is great for the growing of export crops like as cocoa, bananas, palm oil, rubber and tea. Cameroon is one of the top five producers of cocoa. Cocoa beans are the country’s highest agricultural export. Cotton and bananas are the next highest exports (Simoes, 2009). Foods grown for the domestic market include maize and bananas. Cassava, beans, sorghum and vegetables are also common crops, as is taro, a tropical plant grown as a root vegetable. Their leaves are eaten, too. The climate in the north is great for crops like cotton, peanuts, groundnuts and rice. In areas too dry for planting, farmers have livestock. In the west, potatoes are an important crop. These were brought by European settlers in the 19th...
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...you could not miss it when you hear any one of them. There is not a lot of traditional art in Cameroon (Biggins, 2014).
Cameroon is not a country that is very serious about sports, but they have trophies in sports like hockey, tennis, golf, cricket, soccer, rugby, basketball, baseball, and football (Maps of the World: Cameroon Sports).
Conclusion
The biggest and most beautiful tourist attraction in Cameroon is Mt. Cameroon, which is the biggest mountain in West Africa. It is also an active volcano. Overall, Cameroon is just a magnificent country to visit if you want to see all of Africa in one country. Obviously, you would not be able to see sights like the beautiful pyramids of Egypt, or even the amazing wildlife of Tanzania or Kenya, but you would be able to see many cultural aspects of all of these countries in just one location, the great republic of Cameroon.
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