🇨🇲 Cameroon 10 administrative divisions
10 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 5,896 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- CM · CMR · 120
- Capital
- Yaounde
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- XAF — Central African CFA franc
- Calling code
- +237
- Internet domain
- .cm
- Divisions
- 10
- Cities and towns
- 5,896
Divisions
The 10 divisions of Cameroon
10 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Far North | CM-EN | 1,543 | 3,142,883 |
| Centre | CM-CE | 1,105 | 2,797,212 |
| Southwest | CM-SW | 577 | 1,419,269 |
| East | CM-ES | 572 | 875,949 |
| Littoral | CM-LT | 500 | 2,294,540 |
| Northwest | CM-NW | 456 | 2,095,538 |
| Adamawa | CM-AD | 380 | 838,689 |
| North | CM-NO | 359 | 1,409,445 |
| West | CM-OU | 222 | 2,269,136 |
| South | CM-SU | 181 | 633,082 |
A further 1 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Cameroon
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/CM.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/CM/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.