Etoko, Cameroon
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Etuko (or Etuku) is a village in
Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...
located in the Department of Manyu in the Southwest Region. It is administratively attached to the district of Upper Bayang (Tinto Council) and to the canton of Bachuo Akagbe. The village is located from
Mamfe Mamfe or Mamfé is a city in and the capital of Manyu, a division of the Southwest Region in Cameroon. It is from the border of Nigeria, on the Manyu River. It has a population of 42,500 (2024 estimates) It is known as a centre for traditi ...
and from
Bamenda Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern Cameroon and capital of the Northwest Region (Cameroon), Northwest Region. The city has a population of about six hundred thousand people and is located north-west of the C ...
.


Demographics

The locality had 414 inhabitants in 1953, then 578 in 1967. At that date it had a market, a cooperative (CPMS), a Catholic school founded in 1959.
Dictionnaire des villages de la Manyu
', Centre ORSTOM de Yaoundé, 1973, page 40.
During the 2005 census, there were 656 people. The local ethnicity is .


See also

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Communes of Cameroon The Divisions of Cameroon are the third-level units of administration in Cameroon. They are organised by divisions and sub divisions of each province (now Regions). As of 2005 (and since 1996) there are 2 urban communities (Douala and Ya ...


References

Populated places in Southwest Region (Cameroon) {{Cameroon-geo-stub