French Cameroon

French Cameroon, also known as the French Cameroons (French: Cameroun), was a Frenchmandate territory in Central Africa. It now forms part of the independent country of Cameroon.

French Cameroon was created from the eastern part of the former German colony of Cameroon (German: Deutsche Kolonie Kamerun). Its status, from 1919, was that of a ‘mandated territory’ of the League of Nations (LON), later becoming a ‘trust territory’ under the United Nations (UN). It was also a member of the French Union as an associated territory, then a trust state of Cameroon, and finally a member state of the French Community.