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Hauts-Plateaux

department of Cameroon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ2443778 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hauts-Plateaux is a department of West Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 415 km2 and as of 2005 had a total population of 80,678. The capital of the department lies at Baham. The department was created in 1995 when the Mifi department was split up.

Subdivisions

The department is divided administratively into 4 communes and in turn into villages.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hauts-Plateaux” is department of Cameroon. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hauts-Plateaux, department and Cameroon, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hauts-Plateaux, department and Cameroon is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2443778. Authority coordinates are 5.335, 10.368. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hauts-Plateaux” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.