Division

Menchum

Division (département) of the Northwest 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

66 places on InsideKamer lie in Menchum, according to Wikidata.

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

From Wikipedia

Menchum is a department of Northwest Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 4469 km2 and as of 2005 had a total population of 161,998. The capital of the department lies at Wum.

The Menchum River drains this area, flowing westward into Nigeria to join the Benue River.

Subdivisions

The department is divided administratively into 5 communes and in turn into villages.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Menchum”, 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.
    Menchum
    Wikipedia (English)Published 30 September 2026Last verified: 24 October 2026
  3. 3.
    Menchum
    Wikipédia (français)Published 6 December 2024Last verified: 24 October 2026