Kent+Cameroon

Welcome to Cameroon! Location: Cameroon is located in western Africa near Nigeria in the North West, Chad in the North East, Central African Republic in the East and Equatorial Guinea. Cameroon is about 184,000 square miles, that is slightly bigger than California. It's absolute location is 5.1167 degrees North and 11.9167 degrees East. A fun fact is its official name is the Republic of Cameroon. Place: One physical feature is Logone River. The Logone River borders Cameroon and Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the northern tip of Cameroon, it lies making rich fishing grounds, and is the main source of food. It is 240 miles long and combines with the Chari River. Place: Another physical feature is Mount Cameroon. It's height is 13,435 feet tall and reaches across the land for 14 miles. It's located inland from the Gulf of Guinea. This mountain is known as the highest peak in Sub-Saharan Western and Central Africa. HEI: In this country, they have about 6 different religions, one is the traditional Africa religion. They have and unifying belief that nature is invested with spiritual forces and that there is a need to coexist peacefully with these unseen powers. They also believe that recently dead people can talk to the living. HEI: In Cameroon, they produce more cut down trees for lumber than any other country in Africa.. The result of that is leaving very few forests standing. Even though Cameroon has one of the largest tropical forests on the continent, people believe that if Cameroon keeps cutting down trees at such a fast rate that it can sustain through replanting these trees. HEI: In the agriculture industry, 3 out of 4 people live and work on their own land producing about 90% of the countries food. Everyone in this region depends on agriculture. Mostly all of the farms are small, only about 7 acres. Some cash crops are coffee, bananas, peanuts, cotton, cocoa from cacao beans and much more. Lake Chad and rivers flowing around this country make the grounds rich with soil. Cameroon happens to be one of the world's largest producers of cocoa, about 300,000 tons of cacao beans were produced in 2006. Movement: Connected to the agriculture topic, Cameroonians trade and ship their agriculture products to many different places including Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany, Great Britain, United States and Japan. They also trade with other African and Arab countries which has increased in the past few years. Movement: Most of the top selling agriculture products are cacao beans, cotton, tea, peanuts and others. Some of the other major imports not having to do with food happen to be industrial products, household goods, motor vehicles and other transportation equipment.

Regions: Cameroon, Africa and Wisconsin are very different in a lot of ways, but they are also alike. Cameroon, Africa has warm weather year round, while Wisconsin has warm weather in summer and cold weather, including snow and ice, in the winter. A similarity to them is that they both grow many agriculture products. Another difference is farms in Cameroon only happen to be about 7 acres, but in Wisconsin the acres can be 195+ acres. Another similarity is woman both have long days of work and chores. The size of Cameroon is 183,568 square miles and Wisconsin is 65,556 square feet. One more difference is in Cameroon, their houses are usually mud hut homes or homes made of plants. They separate their houses by building bamboo fences. In Wisconsin, we have houses made of bricks, wood and other solid materials. Also in Wisconsin, our houses are sometimes separated by wooden or metal fences.