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Key facts
- Country
- Cameroon
- Capital
- Ebolowa
- Departments
- Dja-et-Lobo , Mvila , Océan , Vallée-du-Ntem
- Governor
- Bernard Wongolo
- Total
- 47,191 km (18,221 sq mi)
- Density
- 15.883/km (41.138/sq mi)
- Hdi 2022
- 0.628 , medium · 4th of 10
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- electoral unit
- Country
- Cameroon
- Located in
- Cameroon
- Contains
- Vallée-du-Ntem
- Capital
- Ebolowa
- Population
- 633082
- Area
- 47191
- Elevation
- 654
- Shares border with
- Woleu-Ntem Province
- Image
- Kribi.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- language used
- Cuvok
- topic's main category
- Category:South Region (Cameroon)
- inception
- 1983-00-00
- Commons category
- South Region (Cameroon)
- native label
- Région du Sud
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
The South Region (French: Région du Sud) is located in the southwestern and south-central portion of the Republic of Cameroon. It is bordered to the east by the East Region, to the north by the Centre Region, to the northwest by the Littoral Region, to the west by the Gulf of Guinea (part of the Atlantic Ocean), and to the south by the countries of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Congo. The South occupies 47,720 km of territory, making it the fourth largest region in the nation. The major ethnic groups are the various Beti-Pahuin peoples, such as the Ewondo, Fang, and Bulu.
The South Region has a fair amount of industry, its main commerce consisting of logging, timber, mining, and offshore oil drilling. Commercial agriculture is also important in the South, the major cash crops being cocoa and rubber. Cattle rearing and fishing are significant economic components, as well. Much of the population is made up of subsistence farmers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “South” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.