Subdivision

Tonga

Subdivision (arrondissement) of the Ndé division, West region.

Provisional — awaiting verification

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

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

From Wikipedia

Tonga, Cameroon is a town and commune in Cameroon.

Geography

The Tonga sub-division has three major village groups: Badoumga (Banounga), Baloua and Babitchoua. Its area is 342 km2 (132 sq mi) with a population of 15000. The capital of this subdivision is Tonga Town, which is 90 km (56 mi) from the regional capital Bafoussam and 30 km (19 mi) from the divisional capital Bangangte. Tonga is on the Yaounde Bafoussam road and is about 220 km (140 mi) from Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon. It is about 10 km (6.2 mi) from Makene, a bus stop along the Bafoussam Yaoundé highway.

Economy

The population is 98% subsistence farmers producing food crops and cash crops like cocoa and coffee in small farms.

Health

On the health front, the Tonga sub-division has 3 health facilities:

Tonga Health and Social Welfare Center

Tonga Catholic Health Center

Maham Health Center

Climate

The climate is equatorial, characterized by the alternation of two dry seasons and two rainy seasons.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Tonga, Cameroon”, revision of 27 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.
    Tonga, Cameroon
    Wikipedia (English)Published 27 September 2026Last verified: 24 October 2026
  3. 3.
    Tonga (Cameroun)
    Wikipédia (français)Published 7 December 2025Last verified: 24 October 2026