--- title: "Garoua – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Garoua, Cameroon: Garoua is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River. Nearby: Roumdé Adjia Stadium. Every way…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/garoua" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/garoua.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Boucarou_%C3%A0_l%27Alliance_Fran%C3%A7aise_de_Garoua.jpg/1920px-Boucarou_%C3%A0_l%27Alliance_Fran%C3%A7aise_de_Garoua.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- City in North Region, Cameroon # Garoua Garoua is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River. ![Garoua](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Boucarou_%C3%A0_l%27Alliance_Fran%C3%A7aise_de_Garoua.jpg/1920px-Boucarou_%C3%A0_l%27Alliance_Fran%C3%A7aise_de_Garoua.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Garoua · Harouna674 The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Roumdé 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roumd%C3%A9_Adjia_Stadium) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see 1. Grand Mosque of Garoua 2. Public Garden A community garden that entertains visitors by enjoying nature and the sound of birds. 3. Carrefour Kanadi 4. Village Artisanal de Garoua 5. Chefferie Souari A tourist attraction. 6. Pont Benoue Garoua N1. From [Wikivoyage: Garoua](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Garoua), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat 1. Restaurant la Marquise 2. Restaurant la Falaise P1. 3. La Casa Quartier Plateau,. 4. Garoua Plataux 5. Iya Glacier Grand Marche,. From [Wikivoyage: Garoua](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Garoua), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Garoua **Airports:** Garoua (GOU), 5 km · Maiduguri (MIU), 286 km\ **Stations:** Garoua International Airport, 5.2 km\ - Yaoundé → Garoua 639 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · $170–260 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/yaounde-to-garoua) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Yaound%C3%A9&to=Garoua) - Douala → Garoua 712 km · quickest by air, 3h 46m · $150–220 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/douala-to-garoua) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Douala&to=Garoua) - Maiduguri → Garoua 284 km · quickest by road, 6h 48m · ₦23,900–31,850 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/maiduguri-to-garoua) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Maiduguri&to=Garoua) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Garoua) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Príncipe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/principe) ST 7 ways of moving, 13 sources 1,081 km 2. [Bwindi Impenetrable National Park](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bwindi) UG 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 2,142 km 3. [Entebbe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/entebbe) UG 9 ways of moving, 38 sources 2,347 km 4. [Ssese Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ssese-islands) UG 11 ways of moving, 16 sources 2,351 km 5. [Lalibela](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lalibela) ET 8 ways of moving, 31 sources 2,818 km If you know how people move in Garoua – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgaroua&title=Garoua&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgaroua), and the note gets an entry. [The place page for Garoua](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/garoua) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Cameroon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CM) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/garoua, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt