Wum is a town and commune in

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. It is the

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Menchum Menchum is a department of Northwest Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 4469 km and as of 2005 had a total population of 161,998. The capital of the department lies at Wum. The Menchum River drains this area, flowing we ...

division in the Northwest Province.

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 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 ...

(by dirt road). It lies near

Lake Wum A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from t ...

, one of five small crater lakes within 15 km of the town in the hilly, volcanic landscape.

Lake Nyos Lake Nyos ( ) is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about northwest of Yaoundé, the capital. Nyos is a deep lake high on the flank of an inactive volcano in the Oku volcanic plain along the Cameroon line of volcan ...

, a crater lake from which a

limnic eruption A limnic eruption, also known as a lake overturn, is a very rare type of natural hazard in which dissolved carbon dioxide () suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of asphyxiating wildlife, livestock, and humans. Scien ...

killed nearly 2,000 people in 1986, is 25 km to the east.

Population and language

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

Aghem Aghem (Wum or Yum) is a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in the Wum Central Sub-division in Menchum Division of the North West Region of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares ...

language, spoken in Wum, is also called Wum. The National Archives UK - CO 1069-20-1

Culture

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Notable people

AkuBai Ningamai Akubai Nnam is a Cameroonian singer and entrepreneur. She is CEO of Impact Makers for Humanity. Akubai is best known for the 2020 song "Yahweh". She was the first Cameroonian to win in the Media Choice Award category at the Gospel Touch M ...

(Ningamai Akubai Nnam), singer and entrepreneur

References

External links

* Charles Nanga,
La réforme de l’administration territoriale au Cameroun à la lumière de la loi constitutionnelle n° 96/06 du 18 janvier 1996
', Mémoire ENA.
Contrôle de gestion et performance des services publics communaux des villes camerounaises
- Thèse de Donation Avele, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV

Populated places in Northwest Region (Cameroon) Communes of Cameroon {{Cameroon-geo-stub