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Ngaoundal

commune and town in Adamawa Region, Cameroon

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ7022029 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ngaoundal is a town in the Adamawa Province of Cameroon. It is located at 6° 30" North, 13° 16" East. The town is home to a regional airport. Bauxite is mined nearby.

Transport

The town is served by the Cameroon Railway which is crossed by a paved highway.

See also

Communes of Cameroon

References

Neba, Aaron, Ph.D. (1999) Modern Geography of the Republic of Cameroon, 3rd ed. Bamenda: Neba Publishers.

"Ngaoundal". Tageo.com. Accessed 23 May 2006.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ngaoundal” as commune and town in Adamawa Region, Cameroon. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ngaoundal, commune and town can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as commune and town in Adamawa Region, Cameroon. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7022029. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2006.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ngaoundal”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ngaoundal primary sources, Ngaoundal archive and Ngaoundal research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ngaoundal”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ngaoundal” 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.