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Essay / Essay on Cameroon - 1297
CameroonImagine beaches, mountains, beautiful stone buildings and a refreshing, relaxing climate. These are all descriptions of Cameroon, the jewel of Central Africa. Cameroon occupies approximately 180,000 square meters of territory and has approximately 20,000,000 inhabitants called Cameroonians. The capital, Yaoundé, is the largest city in the country. Cameroonians speak English and French, there are also around twenty-seven other tribal languages (Edman, 2014). Physical Characteristics Cameroon is sometimes described as "Africa in miniature" because it has all of Africa's major climates and vegetation: mountains, desert, rainforest, savannah grasslands, and ocean coasts. Their natural resources include oil, timber, hydroelectric power, natural gas, cobalt and nickel. Its tropical climate would be ideal for beaches, but as it is in central Africa, it does not have any (Our Africa, Climate and Agriculture). Economy On the southern plateaus, coffee, sugar and tobacco are of important cash crops. On the coast, the climate is ideal for growing export crops like cocoa, bananas, palm oil, rubber and tea. Cameroon is one of the top five cocoa producers. Cocoa beans are the country's main agricultural export. Cotton and bananas come next in importance (Simoes, 2009). Foods grown for the domestic market include corn 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 also eaten. The northern climate is ideal for crops like cotton, groundnuts, groundnuts and rice. In areas too dry for plantations, farmers raise livestock. In the West, the potato is an important crop. These were brought by European settlers in the 19th...... middle of paper ......you couldn't miss it when you heard one of these. There is not much traditional art in Cameroon (Biggins, 2014). Cameroon is not a very serious country when it comes to sports, but it has trophies in sports like hockey, tennis, golf, cricket, football, rugby, basketball, baseball. and football (World Maps: Cameroon Sports).ConclusionThe biggest and most beautiful tourist attraction in Cameroon is Mount Cameroon, which is the largest mountain in West Africa. It is also an active volcano. Overall, Cameroon is simply a stunning country to visit if you want to see all of Africa in one country. Obviously you won't be able to see sites like the magnificent pyramids of Egypt, or even the amazing wildlife of Tanzania or Kenya, but you will be able to see many cultural aspects of all these countries in one place, the great republic. from Cameroon.