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Cameroon's 10 regions are divided into 58 departments, the tier directly under them, each run by a prefect. The map has two speeds: a handful of enormous departments in the forest of the east and the savannah of the north, and a crowd of tiny ones packed into the western highlands, where the West and the Northwest hold fifteen between them. This page is all 58, the ten regions they are grouped by, and the names that repeat.
A department is named for a river, a mountain, a plateau or a people far more often than for a town, which is why the names are so repetitive: the Mayo departments take their name from the Fulfulde word for a seasonal river, the Mbam and Nyong departments from two of the great rivers of the south, and the Mefou and Haut-Nkam ones from smaller ones. Departments are split further into arrondissements, which the game does not ask for.
The traps are the repeated names and the two cities.
Similar names are not neighbours. Faro is in the North and Faro-et-Déo is in Adamawa, and Djérem is in Adamawa while Lom-et-Djérem is in the East. A name with an "et" in it joins two rivers, and it is easy to give it the region of the other one.
The two big cities are the two small departments. Mfoundi, which is Yaoundé, and Wouri, which is Douala, are each named for the city and cover little more than its metropolitan area, so they are easy to lose on a map the size of the country.
The groups are the regions, and each department sits in exactly one. A player who has learned the ten regions meets the same names here, and Cameroon Regions draws them for the first time.
Haut-Nyong: the heart of the East region, around Abong-Mbang, a department of unbroken rainforest on the upper Nyong river and the largest of the 58. It is bigger than several of Cameroon's regions are, and almost all of it is forest and logging track, so if the picture is deep green and you cannot see a town, it is the likeliest answer.
Mfoundi: the department of Yaoundé, the national capital, and the smallest on the map, set in the middle of the Centre region among the hills of the forest plateau. Every other department in the Centre curls around it. It is a city of several million on a few hundred square kilometres.
Fako: the department of the Southwest region that holds Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in the country, along with Buea at its foot and the beach town of Limbe on the coast. It is wet, green and volcanic, with tea and rubber plantations, and its signs are in English.
58, grouped into 10 regions. Every region holds between four and ten, from the North, the East, the South and the Littoral with four each to the Centre with ten.
The region is the top tier, headed by a governor, and the department is the tier directly under it, headed by a prefect. Below the department are the arrondissements, and below those the communes.
Haut-Nyong, in the East region, is the largest, and Mfoundi, the department of the capital Yaoundé, is the smallest.
The Northwest has seven: Boyo, Bui, Donga-Mantung, Menchum, Mezam, Momo and Ngo-Ketunjia. The Southwest has six: Fako, Kupe-Manenguba, Lebialem, Manyu, Meme and Ndian. They are the two English speaking regions.
River. It is the Fulfulde word for a seasonal river, and it begins the name of seven of the departments in the Far North, the North and Adamawa, such as Mayo-Danay, Mayo-Louti and Mayo-Banyo.
Wouri, in the Littoral region, which covers little more than the city and its estuary. Yaoundé is the department of Mfoundi, in the Centre region.
For the tier above, try Cameroon Regions. The other African trainers here are Senegal Departments, Kenya Constituencies, Ghana Districts, Tanzania Districts and Tunisia Governorates. For second tiers of a similar size, try Austria Districts and Bulgaria Municipalities.
