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| Country |  Cameroon  Ambazonia |
| Region | Southwest Region |
| Department | Meme |
| District | Konye |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
Kurume is a town and commune in Cameroon located along the Kumba - Mamfe road in the Southwest Region. [1] Kurume is a place in Konye commune, Meme department, Southwest Region, Cameroon. It is located north of the city of Kumba. The inhabitants speak the Bafaw form of the Bafaw-Balong language.
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Kumba is a metropolitan city in the Meme department, Southwest Region, Western Cameroon, commonly referred to as "K-town" colloquially. Kumba is the largest and most developed city in the Meme Department and is increasingly drawing in residents from the local villages such as Mbonge. It is also the largest urban area in the South-West Kumba has an estimated population of about 400,000 with three quarters of this population being young due to advancement in medicine and lowering infant mortality. The N8 and N16 highways meet at Kumba.
Tiko, originally called ‘Keka’ by the Bakweris, is a town and important port in the southwest region of Cameroon. The settlement grew as a market town for Duala fishermen, Bakweri farmers and hunters from Molyko, Bwenga, Bulu and Bokova. The core quarters in Tiko include Streets 1 to 7, Motombolombo, Down Beach, New Quarter, P&T quarters, New Layout, Long Street, Likomba, Golf Club, Mutengene, Ombe. As of 2010, the town is estimated to have a population of 55,914.
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Ndian is a department of Southwest Region in Cameroon. It is located in the humid tropical rainforest zone about 650 km (400 mi) southeast of Yaoundé, the capital.
Meme is a department of Southwest Region in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 3,105 km2 and as of 2005 had a total population of 326,734. The capital of the department lies at Kumba.
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Lake Barombi Mbo or Barombi-ma-Mbu is a lake near Kumba in the Southwest Region of Cameroon. It is located in the Cameroon volcanic chain, and is the largest volcanic lake in this region. It is one of the oldest radiocarbon-dated lakes in Africa, with the youngest lava flow in it being about one million years old. On old colonial maps the area was known as Elefanten Sea, but the elephants living in the area were extirpated due to ivory trading.
University of Buea (UB) is found in Molyko, Buea, in the southwest region of Cameroon. It was founded as a university centre in 1985 and became a full-fledged university in 1992, following a government decree that re-organized state universities in the country. It is regarded as the best university in Cameroon and is one of two English speaking universities in Cameroon, alongside the University of Bamenda, which follow the British system of education. It serves citizens from both anglophone and francophone regions of Cameroon and from neighboring countries such as Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.
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Bankon is a Bantu language spoken in the Moungo department of the Littoral Province of southwestern Cameroon. It has a lexical similarity of 86% with Rombi which is spoken in the nearby Meme department of Southwest Province.
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The Bafaw people are Bantus and live in Meme division of the South West Region of Cameroon. They make up 10 towns or villages, namely: Kokubuma, Kombone Bafaw, Dikomi, Kurume, Bolo, Ikiliwindi, Mambanda, Kumba, Dieka and Njanga each ruled by a chief known as “Nfon.”
Konye is a town and commune in Cameroon located along the Kumba - Mamfe road in the Southwest Region.
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Coordinates: 4°54′N9°28′E / 4.900°N 9.467°E
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