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Noun (department)

department of Cameroon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ2445359 ↗
Source-derived summary

Noun is a department of West Region in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 7700 km2 and as of 2005 had a total population of 1,540,000. The capital of the department lies at Foumban.

Subdivisions

The division is divided administratively into nine communes and in turn into villages.

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The public source identifies “Noun (department)” as department of Cameroon. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Noun, department and Cameroon.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Noun, department and Cameroon providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2445359. Authority coordinates are 5.732, 10.883. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Noun (department)” 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.