Cameroon
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Flag Description
Three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), red, and yellow with a yellow five-pointed star centered in the red band; uses the popular pan-african colors of ethiopia.

Currency
Communaute financiere africaine franc. Note: The responsible authority is the bank of the central african states.

Astronomy
Today's date is November 8, 2009. There is currently a Full Moon.

Location
Western africa, bordering the bight of biafra, between equatorial guinea and nigeria.

Climate
Varies with terrain, from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north.

Terrain
Diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north.

Elevation Extremes
The lowest point is at Atlantic Ocean 0 m. The highest point is at Fako (on Cameroon Mountain) 4,095 m.

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Cameroon News:
Feeling like fish out of water
The BBC's Sam Olukoya travels to one of the areas where the Nigerian government resettled former Bakassi residents to see how they are coping a year on from the ceding of the territory to Cameroon.

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