Foumban
Cameroon
The Royal Palace of Foumban houses a museum dedicated to Ibrahim Njoya, the Bamoun sultan who invented the Bamum script — a writing system he created for his own language — making this city in Cameroon's Northwest Highlands a destination with a genuinely singular historical claim. The city is also a centre of Bamoun culture more broadly, with a museum of traditional arts, a craft centre, and a market serving the surrounding region.
- Population130,287
- Nearest water from center1.8 km
- Nearest mountain from center7.3 km