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Nanga Eboko (Nanga-Eboko) is a town and municipality, capital of the Haute-Sanaga (Upper Sanaga) department in the Centre Province of Cameroon. It lies on the Sanaga River and counts a population of 29,814, of which 18,282 in the town.
History
Geography
The town, located in the middle of Cameroon, lies between Yaoundé (172 km northeast), the national capital, and Bertoua (173 km east).
The municipality includes the town of Nanga Eboko itself and several villages:
Transport
Nanga Eboko has a railway station on the Camrail system, on the branch linking the national capital Yaoundé with Ngaoundéré. The station is located in the northern suburb of Nsimeyong. The town has also a local unpaved airfield, and is crossed by the national highway N1.
Popular culture
Eddie Murphy's character in Trading Places dons a thinly veiled disguise as an exchange student from Cameroon named "Nanga Eboko".
Notable people
Asseng Protais, playwright
Bio Paulin, footballer
Loïc Mbe Soh, footballer
Gallery
See also
Communes of Cameroon
Rail transport in Cameroon
References
External links
Media related to Nanga Eboko at Wikimedia Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bio Paulin
- Willie Overtoom
- Mohammadou Al Hadji
- Nanga Eboko
- Centre Region (Cameroon)
- List of Indonesia international footballers born outside Indonesia
- List of municipalities of Cameroon
- Haute-Sanaga
- 2023–24 Nottingham Forest F.C. season
- List of universities in Cameroon
- Index of Cameroon-related articles
- Loïc Mbe Soh
- Communes of Cameroon
