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Wum

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Country
  
Cameroon

Elevation
  
1,109 m

Local time
  
Thursday 1:49 PM

Time zone
  
WAT (UTC+1)

Population
  
26,123 (2012)

Province
  
Northwest Region

Wum

Weather
  
22°C, Wind N at 13 km/h, 81% Humidity

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Wum is a town and commune in Cameroon. It is the capital of Menchum division in the Northwest Province.

Contents

Map of Wum, Cameroon

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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 80 kilometres (50 mi) 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 2000 people in 1986, is 25 km to the east.

Population and language

In 2012 Wum's estimated population was 80,123 inhabitants.

The Aghem language, spoken in Wum, is also called Wum.

References

Wum Wikipedia