French Cameroon
Territory of Cameroun Territoire du Cameroun | |||||||||
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| 1916–1960 | |||||||||
League of Nations mandates in the Middle East and Africa; French Cameroon is number 9. | |||||||||
| Status | Mandate of France | ||||||||
| Capital | Yaoundé 3°51′59″N 11°31′14″E / 3.866419°N 11.520563°E | ||||||||
| Official languages | French | ||||||||
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| Religion | Christianity, Bwiti, Islam | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• 1916–1920 | Raymond Poincaré | ||||||||
• 1959–1960 | Charles de Gaulle | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• German Cameroon partitioned | 20 July 1916 | ||||||||
• independence as Cameroon | 1 January 1960 | ||||||||
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French Cameroon, also known as the French Cameroons (French: Cameroun), was a French mandate territory in Central Africa. It now forms part of the independent country of Cameroon.
French Cameroon was created from the eastern part of the former German colony of Cameroon (German: Deutsche Kolonie Kamerun). Its status, from 1919, was that of a ‘mandated territory’ of the League of Nations (LON), later becoming a ‘trust territory’ under the United Nations (UN). It was also a member of the French Union as an associated territory, then a trust state of Cameroon, and finally a member state of the French Community.