Garoua
Garoua is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River.
Garoua is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River. A thriving centre of the textiles and cotton industries, the city has approximately 900,000 inhabitants in 2022, with a large population of Fulbe/Fulani people.
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Worth seeing in and around Garoua
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Roumdé Adjia Stadium
Stade Roumdé Adjia is a multi-purpose stadium in Garoua, Cameroon. It is currently used mostly for football matches.
2.9 km · building in Cameroon · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Grand Mosque of Garoua
- 02Public Garden
A community garden that entertains visitors by enjoying nature and the sound of birds.
- 03Carrefour Kanadi
- 04Village Artisanal de Garoua
- 05Chefferie Souari
A tourist attraction.
- 06Pont Benoue Garoua
N1.
From Wikivoyage: Garoua, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Restaurant la Marquise
- 02Restaurant la Falaise
P1.
- 03La Casa
Quartier Plateau,.
- 04Garoua Plataux
- 05Iya Glacier
Grand Marche,.
From Wikivoyage: Garoua, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Garoua
- Airports
- Garoua (GOU), 5 km · Maiduguri (MIU), 286 km
- Stations
- Garoua International Airport, 5.2 km
- Yaoundé → Garoua639 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · $170–260
- Douala → Garoua712 km · quickest by air, 3h 46m · $150–220
- Maiduguri → Garoua284 km · quickest by road, 6h 48m · ₦23,900–31,850
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No local-transport research exists yet for Garoua
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Garoua. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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