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Oveng

commune of Cameroon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7113345
Source-derived summary

Oveng is a town and commune in the South Province of Cameroon. It is located on the Kam River near the southern border with Equatorial Guinea and near the Ntem River.

Climate

Oveng has a Tropical wet and dry or savanna climate (Classification: Aw). The district’s yearly temperature is 25.45ºC (77.81ºF) and it is -1.36% lower than Cameroon’s averages. Oveng typically receives about 132.95 millimetres (5.23 inches) of precipitation and has 253.55 rainy days (69.47% of the time) annually.

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

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 79-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oveng, commune 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 Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7113345. Authority coordinates are 2.330, 11.130. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from Oveng” 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.