- Wum
Infobox Settlement
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footnotes =Wum is the
capital ofMenchum division in the Northwest Province ofCameroon .Geography
Wum lies on a plateau at an elevation of about 1100 m near the edge of the western highlands of Cameroon. It is 50 km north of the provincial capital
Bamenda (80 km by dirt road). It lies near Lake Wum, one of five small crater lakes within 15 km of the town in the hilly, volcanic landscape.Lake Nyos , a crater lake from which alimnic eruption killed nearly 2000 people in 1986, is 25 km to the east.In 2007 Wum's estimated population was 110.000cite web | url=http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-53&srt=1npn&col=hq&pt=c&va=&geo=347059007 | title="The World Gazetteer" | accessdate=2007-02-20]
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