Cameroon is located on the Gulf of Guinea, at the intersection between Western and Central Africa. With a land mass of 475.000 km², Cameroon stretches from 2° to 13° latitude north and from 9° to 16° east of Greenwich ( at its widest point of 800 km ).

Cameroon shares borders in the west with Nigeria, in the north with Chad, in the east with the Central African Republic, in the south with Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea and a 400 km stretch of the Atlantic Ocean in the south-west. ISO code is CM Time is GMT + 1.