Wum is a town and commune in Cameroon. It is the capital of Menchum division in the Northwest Province. thumb|Masque de danse Wum-Musée du quai Branlythumb|Fufu Corn
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 3 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Wum is referenced by 48 other articles, and connects out to Northwest, Cameroon and capital city.
Vinony files it under Communes of Cameroon and Populated places in Northwest Region (Cameroon).
Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Wum
- Region
- Northwest
- Country
- Cameroun
- Population
- 42,457
- Timezone
- Africa/Douala
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Wum
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Cameroon
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Cameroon
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Cameroon
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northwest Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Division
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.population_total
- 26123
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.timezone
- WAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1109
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of Cameroon
- Country
- Cameroon
- Located in
- Menchum
- Elevation
- 1055
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
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- Commons category
- Wum, Cameroon
- P12749
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
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Wum is a town and commune in Cameroon. It is the capital of Menchum division in the Northwest Province. thumb|Masque de danse Wum-Musée du quai Branlythumb|Fufu Corn
==Geography== Wum is the third biggest town in the north west region of Cameroon. It lies on a plateau at an elevation of about 1100 m near the edge of the western highlands of Cameroon. It is north of the regional capital Bamenda (by dirt road). It lies near Lake Wum, one of five small crater lakes within 15 km of the town in the hilly, volcanic landscape. Lake Nyos, a crater lake from which a limnic eruption killed nearly 2,000 people in 1986, is 25 km to the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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