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Northwest Region | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Cameroon_-_Northwest.svg) Location of the Northwest Region within Cameroon | |
| Coordinates: 6°20′N 10°30′E / 6.333°N 10.500°E | |
| Country | Cameroon |
| Capital | Bamenda |
| Departments | Boyo, Bui, Donga-Mantung, Menchum, Mezam, Momo, Ngo-Ketunjia (Ngoketunjia) |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Adolphe Lele Lafrique |
| • President of the Regional Assembly & Executive Council | Fru Fobuzshi Angwafo III[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17,300 km2 (6,700 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 1,968,578 |
| • Density | 110/km2 (290/sq mi) |
| ISO 3166 code | CM-NW |
| HDI (2022) | 0.560[2] medium · 6th of 10 |
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The Northwest Region, or North-West Region (French: Région du Nord-Ouest) is a region with special status in Cameroon. Its capital is Bamenda. The Northwest Region was part of the Southern Cameroons, found in the western highlands of Cameroon. It is bordered to the southwest by the Southwest Region, to the south by the West Region, to the east by the Adamawa Region, and to the north by Nigeria. Various Ambazonian nationalist and separatist factions regard the region as being distinct as a polity from Cameroon.[3]
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In 1919, the Northwest Region became solely administered by the United Kingdom.[5] In 1961, the region joined the Cameroon.[6] Ambazonian separatists regard both the North-West and South-West regions as being constituent components of their envisaged breakaway state.[7]
- ^ https://theguardianpostcameroon.com/post/4141/en/nw-regional-assembly-road-covered-so-far-in-four-years-of-existence
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ Tatah-Mentan, I., and F. Achankeng. "Stopping war before it starts: testing preventive diplomacy in the selfdetermination case of British Southern Cameroons (aka Ambazonia)." British Southern Cameroons: Nationalism & Conflict in Postcolonial Africa (2014): 127-170.
- ^ "North-West Cameroon".
- ^ Identity Politics in Colonial Africa: Fulani Migrations and Land Conflict, Taylor & Francis, UK, 2016, p. 20
- ^ Emmanuel Mbah, Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa: Fulani Migrations and Land Conflict, Taylor & Francis, UK, 2016, p. 21
- ^ Adepoju, Paul. "World Report Hospital attack in anglophone Cameroon kills four patients." (2019).