Adamawa Plateau

The up to 2,710 m high highlands of Adamawa (also: Adamawa Adamawa or ) is a continental high mountains northeast of the so-called African knee. The name is derived from Modibo Adama, the founder of the Emirates Adamawa. From this emirate is the name of the Cameroon Adamawa region and the Nigerian state of Adamawa derived.

Geography

The high mountains are located in the northern Cameroon, small area with many still up in the eastern Nigeria, in western areas of the Central African Republic and the south-western Chad.

The Adamawa highlands is the high-mountain link between the north-west bordering Upper Guinea threshold and the east further north equatorial threshold. Between these two thresholds, it passes into the Nigerian lowlands in the west. In the north, it passes into the Chad basin of the valley of the River Benue and the north then it Mandara Mountains. In the east is, as already mentioned, the Upper Guinea threshold at, in the south of the Lower Guinea threshold. Some further southeast is - not directly adjacent - the Congo Basin.

Provincial nature

The north of the Adamawa - Highlands is dominated by the wet savannah, south of the vast tropical rain forest. In the mountainous heights are many small and large streams and rivers: These have often cut deep into the landscape. This is good example of the rivers Benue, which rises here and flows westward to the Niger, and Djerem significantly; on the latter is a rather large mountain reservoir.

Mountains, rivers, countries and places

These mountains, rivers, countries and places are in the Adamawa Highlands

Mountains

These are the heights of the highest mountains:

  • Tchabal Nbabo ( 2460 m; mountain in the highlands of Cameroon, Cameroon, at Banyo )
  • Dimlang ( 2042 m; mountain in Shebshi Mountains, Nigeria, in Jalingo )
  • Tchabal Nganha (1732 m; mountain in the highlands of Cameroon, at Ngaoundéré )

Main rivers

  • Benue
  • Sanaga
  • Djerem
  • Mbam

Countries

  • Nigeria
  • Cameroons
  • Chad
  • Central African Republic

Places

In Adamawa highlands are mainly small to medium-sized cities:

  • Meiganga - Cameroon
  • Banyo - Cameroon
  • Jailing - Nigeria
  • Ngaoundéré - Cameroon
  • Tibati - Cameroon
  • Yoko - Cameroon

Languages

The most important language in the Adamawa Highlands is a simplified form of the Ful lingua franca ( Adamawa Fulfulde, about 800,000 speakers). It belongs to the Atlantic languages. In addition, numerous Adamawa languages ​​are spoken ( a subset of the Adamawa - Ubangi languages), such as

  • Mumuye - in Eastern Nigeria, south of the Benue, 400,000 speakers
  • Samba Leko - in Eastern Nigeria, on the border with Cameroon, 60,000 speakers
  • Mbum - in North Cameroon, 50,000 people

In the southern foothills and semi- Bantu languages ​​are spoken such as

  • Vute - in Cameroon, 20,000 speakers
  • Tikar - in Cameroon, 25,000 speakers

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  • High mountains
  • Mountains in Africa
  • Geography (Cameroon)
  • Geography (Nigeria )
Adamawa State Tropical rainforest Sanaga River Mbam River Fula language Mumuye language Mbum language
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