Douala
Douala is the largest city and the commercial centre of Cameroon. Douala is really quite a hot and sticky place, and the grimy state of the infrastructure in parts leaves a lot to be desired.Photo: Njeimosestimah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Stade Mbappé Léppé
Photo: Serieminou, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stade Samuel Mbappé Léppé formally Stade Akwa is a multi-use stadium in Douala, Cameroon.
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul
Photo: Guillaume WA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul - situated in Douala, Cameroon - is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala and dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.
Doual'art
Photo: Roberto Paci Dalò, CC BY-SA 2.0.
doual'art is a non profit cultural organisation and art centre founded in 1991 in Douala, Cameroon and focussed on new urban practices of African cities.
Douala
- Type: City with 2,000,000 residents
- Description: city in Cameroon
- Categories: port settlement, big city, million city and locality
- Location: Littoral Province, Coastal Cameroon, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
4.0429° or 4° 2' 35" northLongitude
9.7062° or 9° 42' 22" eastPopulation
2,000,000Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)IATA airport code
DLAUnited Nations Location Code
CM DLAOpen Location Code
6FPF2PV4+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 732125487OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2232593Wikidata ID
Q132830Douala Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Douala
- Albanian: Duala
- Arabic: Douala
- Arabic: دوالا
- Armenian: Դուալա
- Arpitan: Douala
- Asturian: Douala
- Azerbaijani: Duala
- Basque: Duala
- Belarusian: Дуала
- Bengali: ডুয়ালা
- Bengali: দোয়ালা
- Bengali: দৌয়ালা
- Bosnian: Douala
- Breton: Douala
- Bulgarian: Дуала
- Catalan: Douala
- Catalan: Duala
- Cebuano: Douala
- Chechen: Дуала (гӀала)
- Chechen: Дуала
- Chinese: Douala
- Chinese: 杜阿拉
- Croatian: Douala
- Czech: Douala
- Danish: Douala
- Dutch: Douala
- Egyptian Arabic: دوالا
- Esperanto: Douala
- Esperanto: Dualao
- Estonian: Douala
- Estonian: Kamerunstadt
- Ewe: Douala
- Fiji Hindi: Douala
- Finnish: Douala
- French: Douala
- Galician: Douala
- Georgian: დუალა
- German: Douala
- German: Duala
- German: Kamerun
- Greek: Ντουάλα
- Gujarati: ડોઆલા
- Gujarati: દૌઆલા
- Haitian: Dwala
- Hausa: Douala
- Hebrew: דואואלה
- Hebrew: דואלה
- Hindi: डुआला
- Hindi: डुओला
- Hungarian: Douala
- Icelandic: Douala
- Icelandic: Dóúala
- Ido: Douala
- Indonesian: Douala
- Interlingue: Douala
- Irish: Douala
- Italian: Douala
- Japanese: ドゥアラ
- Kabiyè: Duwala
- Kannada: ದೌಲಾ
- Kazakh: Дуала
- Kirghiz: Дуала
- Korean: 두알라
- Latin: Douala
- Latin: Duala
- Latvian: Duala
- Lingala: Duala
- Lithuanian: Douala
- Lithuanian: Duala
- Lombard: Douala
- Macedonian: Дуала
- Malay: Douala
- Malayalam: ദൗവ്വാല
- Marathi: कामेरूनश्टाड
- Marathi: दौआला
- Min Nan Chinese: Douala
- Moksha: Дуала
- Mongolian: Дуала
- N'Ko: ߘߎߥߊ߯ߟߊ߫
- Northern Frisian: Douala
- Norwegian: Douala
- Norwegian Bokmål: Douala
- Norwegian Bokmål: Duala
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Douala
- Ossetian: Дуалæ
- Panjabi: ਦੂਆਲਾ
- Panjabi: ਦੌਆਲਾ
- Persian: دوالا
- Piemontese: Douala
- Polish: Douala
- Polish: Duala
- Portuguese: Douala
- Portuguese: Duala
- Pushto: دوالا
- Romanian: Douala
- Russian: Дуала
- Russian: Камерун
- Russian: Камерунштадт
- Scots: Douala
- Serbian: Douala
- Serbian: Duala
- Serbian: Дуала
- Silesian: Douala
- Sinhala: ඩුවාලා
- Slovak: Douala
- Slovenian: Douala
- South Azerbaijani: دوالا
- Spanish: Douala
- Spanish: Duala
- Swahili: Douala
- Swedish: Douala
- Tachawit: Duala
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Douala
- Tajik: Дуала
- Tamil: டுஆலா
- Telugu: దౌవాలా
- Thai: ดูอาลา
- Turkish: Douala
- Turkmen: Duala
- Ukrainian: Дуала
- Ukrainian: Камерун
- Ukrainian: Камерунштадт
- Urdu: دوالا
- Uzbek: Duala
- Venetian: Douala
- Veps: Dual
- Vietnamese: Douala
- Waray (Philippines): Douala
- Welsh: Douala
- Wu Chinese: 杜阿拉
- Yoruba: Douala
- Doula
- Tuwala
Other Places Named Douala
In the Area
- Place du Président Ahmadou AhidjoLocality
- CongoSuburb
- Douala BarLocality
- Ancien DalipLocality
- Carrefour TiffLocality
- Vallée BessenguéSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Douala. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.