Foumban
Cameroon
The Royal Palace of Foumban houses a museum dedicated to Ibrahim Njoya, the Bamoun sultan who invented the Bamum script — a writing system he created for his own language — making this city in Cameroon's Northwest Highlands a destination with a genuinely singular historical claim. The city is also a centre of Bamoun culture more broadly, with a museum of traditional arts, a craft centre, and a market serving the surrounding region.
- Population130,287
- Nearest water from center 1.8 km1.1 mi
- Nearest mountain from center 7.3 km4.5 mi
Climate · monthly averages
J
25°76°
0mm0.1in
F
26°78°
10mm0.4in
M
25°77°
60mm2.4in
A
23°74°
170mm6.6in
M
22°72°
215mm8.4in
J
21°71°
220mm8.6in
J
21°69°
295mm11.5in
A
21°69°
325mm12.7in
S
21°70°
265mm10.4in
O
21°70°
215mm8.4in
N
22°72°
55mm2.2in
D
23°74°
5mm0.1in
Avg temp · total precipitation, 1991–2020 monthly normals · ERA5-Land · methodology ↗