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Wum

Wum is a town and community in Cameroon which is the capital of Menchum division in the Northwest Province.

Wum is the third biggest town in the North West Region of Cameroon. It lies on a plateau at an elevation of about 1,100m near the edge of the western highlands of Cameroon. It is 80km north of the regional capital Bamenda (by untarred road). It lies near Lake Wum, one of five small crater lakes within 15 km of the town in the hilly, volcanic landscape. Lake Nyos, a crater lake from which a limnic eruption killed nearly 2000 people in 1986, is 25 km to the east.

In 2012 Wum's estimated population was 80,123 and The Aghem language, spoken by the people of Wum, is also called Wum.

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