Division

Faro

Division (département) of the North region.

Provisional — awaiting verification

Subdivisions

The 2 subdivisions (arrondissements) of this division.

Names and codes as published in the national administrative boundaries dataset (Institut National de Cartographie, via OCHA), valid on 4 January 2019. Some names are published without accents.

Towns, villages and neighbourhoods

71 places on InsideKamer lie in Faro, according to Wikidata.

The 60 best documented are listed. All places in the encyclopedia

From Wikipedia

Faro is a department of North Region in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 11,785 km2 and as of 2001 had a total population of 81,472. The capital of the department lies at Poli.

Subdivisions

The department is divided administratively into three communes and in turn into villages.

Communes

Beka

Poli (urban)

Poli (rural)

Text from the Wikipedia article “Faro (department)”, revision of 29 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.
    Cameroon — Subnational Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB, v01)
    OCHA / Institut National de CartographiePublished 4 January 2019Last verified: 14 October 2026

    Downloaded on 2026-10-14. Names, P-codes and hierarchy of the 10 regions, 58 divisions and 360 subdivisions, valid on 2019-01-04. Names are given as published; some omit accents.

  2. 2.
    Faro (department)
    Wikipedia (English)Published 29 September 2026Last verified: 25 October 2026
  3. 3.
    Faro (département)
    Wikipédia (français)Published 5 December 2024Last verified: 25 October 2026