Bafoussam

Bafoussam

      town located in western Cameroon, north-northeast of Douala. A trading centre of the Bamiléké (Bamileke) peoples, it lies in a densely populated region where coffee, kola (kola nut) nuts, tobacco, tea, and Cinchona (from which quinine is made) are grown and pigs and poultry are raised. The town has a trade school, coffee-processing plants, wood and construction industries, and an airfield. Pop. (2004 est.) 319,902.

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