Nanga Eboko

Nanga Eboko
The town's market
Nanga Eboko Location in Cameroon
Coordinates: 4°40′15″N 12°22′23″E / 4.67083°N 12.37306°E / 4.67083; 12.37306
Country	Cameroon
Province	Centre
Department	Haute-Sanaga
Area
• Total	7,000 km2 (3,000 sq mi)
Elevation	631 m (2,070 ft)
Population [1]
• Total	29,814
• Density	4.3/km2 (11/sq mi)
Climate	Aw

Nanga Eboko (Nanga-Eboko) is a town and municipality, capital of the Haute-Sanaga (Upper Sanaga) department in the Centre Province of Cameroon. It lies on the Sanaga River and counts a population of 29,814, of which 18,282 in the town.^[1]

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The town, located in the middle of Cameroon, lies between Yaoundé (172 km northeast), the national capital, and Bertoua (173 km east).

The municipality includes the town of Nanga Eboko itself and several villages:^[2]

Nanga Eboko has a railway station on the Camrail system, on the branch linking the national capital Yaoundé with Ngaoundéré. The station is located in the northern suburb of Nsimeyong.^[3] The town has also a local unpaved airfield, and is crossed by the national highway N1.

Eddie Murphy's character in Trading Places dons a thinly veiled disguise as an exchange student from Cameroon named "Nanga Eboko".^[4]

• Asseng Protais, playwright
• Bio Paulin, footballer
• Loïc Mbe Soh, footballer

• Communes of Cameroon
• Rail transport in Cameroon

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