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Cameroon

The Portuguese navigator Fernão do Pó named the Wouri estuary Rio dos Camarões for its swarms of crustaceans. The name later spread to the nearby mountains, and then to the whole country.

Where its story happens

The Wouri estuary, Douala, at 4.05°N, 9.70°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.

Five things to know about Cameroon

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Cameroon, in Central Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea, just southeast of Nigeria. See Cameroon on a map.
  2. Roger Milla danced by the corner flag for its team, the Indomitable Lions, and its capital is Yaoundé.
  3. In 1990 its footballers became the first African team to reach a World Cup quarter-final.
  4. Its highest mountain is an active volcano by the sea, and one side is among the wettest places on Earth.
  5. It is named after shrimp: Portuguese sailors called one of its rivers the 'River of Prawns'.

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