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# Garoua

Garoua is a port city and the capital of the North Region of Cameroon, lying on the Benue River.

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## Every way there

- 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)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Garoua, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Garoua has

- Y Scheduled flights Garoua (GOU), 5 km
- F Trains and coaches 1 feed listed in the Mobility Database, not compiled yet (Socatur)
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Guider, 92 km.

9.300°, 13.400°

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.

Get in

## Getting to Garoua

1. Garoua International Airport

See

## Worth seeing

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.

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,.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Garoua), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Harouna674 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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