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  Encyclopedia: Geography of Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
West of this is the basin of the Niger, the third river of Africa, which, though flowing to the Atlantic, has its principal source in the far west, and reverses the direction of flow exhibited by the Nile and Congo.
The Tana River is the longest river in Kenya.
The Jubba River is a river in Somalia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Geography-of-Africa   (6205 words)

  
 CAMEROON 1 (Ger. Kamerun) - Online Information article about CAMEROON 1 (Ger. Kamerun)
Traversing the central portion of the country is a large river known in its upper course as the Lom, and in its lower as the Sanaga, which enters the ocean just to the south of the Cameroon estuary.
The Lokunja and Kribi are smaller rivers with courses parallel to and south of the Nyong.
Ngoko is a trading station on the Dscha, in the south-east of the protectorate, near the confluence of that river with the Sanga.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAL_CAR/CAMEROON_1_Ger_Kamerun_.html   (4654 words)

  
 Cameroon, country. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Among the many rivers that drain Cameroon are the Bénoué, the Wuori, the Sanaga, and the Nyong.
Cameroon’s mineral resources include bauxite and iron ore. The Edéa Dam on the Sanaga River provides the bulk of the country’s electricity and powers a large aluminum smelter; all the finished aluminum is exported.
Contact with Europeans began in 1472, when the Portuguese reached the Wuori River estuary, and a large-scale slave trade ensued, carried on by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, and English.
www.bartleby.com /65/ca/CameroonRe.html   (1456 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kamerun (Cameroon)
The first missionary station was opened at Marienberg on the river Sanaga, here nearly 4000 feet broad.
Other stations were opened (1891) near Falls of the Sanaga, and at Kribi on the Batanga coast.
From the beginning the missionaries suffered much from malaria; in 1894, therefore, they opened the station of Engelberg in the Kamerun Mountains, at an altitude of nearly 1400 feet, both as a sanatorium and a missionary centre.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08596a.htm   (580 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Cameroon
Littoral Province, Moungo Division, north of Douala and west of the Wouri River, and Dibombari.
Center Province, Lekie Division, Sa'a Subdivision, along the bend of the Sanaga River between the river and Sa'a.
Adamawa Province, Faro-and-Deo Division, southern Mayo-Baleo Subdivision, on the upper Mayo-Deo River, Dodeo village near the Nigerian border; North West Province, Donga-Mantung Division, north of Nkambe.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Cameroon   (7656 words)

  
 Cameroon
The country's most fertile soils are found in this region.
Among the principal streams, the Sanaga and Nyong rivers flow generally west to the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mbéré and Logone rivers flow north from the central plateau into Lake Chad.
A network of rivers in the Chad Basin, including the Benue River, links the country with the vast Niger River system to the east and north.
www.afroyonda.info /country/cm.html   (297 words)

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