# cameroon

71,789 polygons from `cameroon-latest.osm.pbf` on Geofabrik
([source](https://download.geofabrik.de/africa/cameroon.html)), filtered by the
[22,075-tag whitelist](https://github.com/NoeFlandre/osm-stats) and
classified by continent + size bin.

| field | value |
|-------|-------|
| country | `cameroon` |
| polygons | **71,789** |
| extract_status | **clean** |
| pbf_date | 2026-07-02 |
| source | `cameroon-latest.osm.pbf` |
| Geofabrik extract | <https://download.geofabrik.de/africa/cameroon.html> |

## Geometry

The parquet file in this folder
(`cameroon.parquet`) has the same schema as the combined
`combined/all_world.parquet`. Each row carries the polygon
**geometry as WKT** (default), plus centroid + area + the
whitelist-matched tag.

Load with:

```python
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
table = pq.read_table("per_country/cameroon/cameroon.parquet")
df = table.to_pandas()
# df["geometry_wkt"] is a column of WKT strings; parse with shapely.wkt.loads
```

## Notes

Central African country on the Gulf of Guinea (formerly French Cameroun, then a British-French trusteeship), often called 'Africa in miniature' for its geographic and cultural diversity. Capital Yaoundé and economic capital Douala both have good OSM coverage. Geofabrik /africa/ PBF (~213 MB). Notable features include Mount Cameroon (the highest peak in West Africa at 4,095 m), the Waza National Park in the north, and the Dja Faunal Reserve (a UNESCO World Heritage site).