City

Bertoua

Administrative capital of the East region.

Provisional — awaiting verificationAdministrative capital of East

Towns, villages and neighbourhoods

1 places on InsideKamer lie in Bertoua, according to Wikidata.

From Wikipedia

Bertoua is a city in Cameroon. It is the capital of the East Region of the Lom-et-Djerem Department. It has a population of 88,462 (at the 2005 Census), and is the traditional home of the Gbaya people. It is home to Mission Cameroon (in Polish: Misja Kamerun) of Polish Dominican Order.

In 2014, the hospital in Bertoua served refugees from the Central African Republic crossing into Cameroon at border towns such as Gbiti.

Economy

Agriculture

Agriculture is the primary industry of Bertoua. In 2020, the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development planted 300,000 cashew seeds in Bertoua, creating a 3,000-hectare plantation.

Transport

Cameroon National Highway 1 runs through Bertoua. Bertoua Airport—operated by Camair-Co—serves Bertoua.

Climate

The climate is a tropical savanna climate (Koppen: Aw).

Text from the Wikipedia article “Bertoua”, revision of 30 September 2026, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Wikipedia is written by volunteers; check important facts against the sources it cites.

This record is provisional: it was compiled from the cited sources but has not yet been checked by an InsideKamer editor.

Sources

  1. 1.
    Regions of Cameroon
    WikipediaLast verified: Not yet verified

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  2. 2.
    Bertoua
    Wikipedia (English)Published 30 September 2026Last verified: 23 October 2026
  3. 3.
    Bertoua
    Wikipédia (français)Published 13 October 2026Last verified: 23 October 2026