Division

Mayo-Rey

Division (département) of the North region.

Provisional — awaiting verification

Subdivisions

The 4 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

80 places on InsideKamer lie in Mayo-Rey, according to Wikidata.

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

From Wikipedia

Mayo-Rey is a department of North Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 36,529 km2 and as of 2001 had a total population of 242,441 . The capital of the department lies at Tcholliré.

Spillover of CAR War

According to the Fides News Agency, as of 10 April 2014,

There is growing concern in Cameroon for the influx of refugees from the neighboring Central African Republic in the department of Mayo-Rey, in the north of the Country. Thousands of refugees, fleeing the violence of armed groups (Séléka and Anti-balaka) are concentrated in the towns of Mbaimboum and Touboro, on the border between the two Countries. Neither the local authorities nor international organizations are providing care for these people, who are left on their own or, in the best cases, can count on the solidarity of relatives and friends from Cameroon.

From the testimony gathered by Fides Agency, several refugees report to the local press that they come and go across the border depending on the situation in their Country of origin. According to local traders, there are bandits and guerrillas among Central Africans who take refuge in Cameroon who hide weapons in the territory of Cameroon and then carry out assaults in Central Africa. On the Cameroonian side, there has been an increase in robberies and assaults against cars along the roads.

Subdivisions

The department is divided administratively into 4 communes and in turn into villages.

Communes

Mandingring

Tcholliré

Touboro

Rey Bouba

Text from the Wikipedia article “Mayo-Rey”, 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.
    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.
    Mayo-Rey
    Wikipedia (English)Published 30 September 2026Last verified: 24 October 2026
  3. 3.
    Mayo-Rey
    Wikipédia (français)Published 5 December 2024Last verified: 24 October 2026