Highways in Cameroon
Total highways: 50,000 km
Paved: 5,000 km
Unpaved: 45,000 km (2004)
Cameroon lies at a key point in the Trans-African Highway network, with three routes crossing its territory:
- Dakar-N'Djamena Highway, connecting just over the Cameroon border with the N'Djamena-Djibouti Highway
- Lagos-Mombasa Highway
- Tripoli-Cape Town Highway
Cameroon's central location in the network means that efforts to close the gaps in the network across Central Africa rely on Cameroon's participation in maintaining the network, and the network has the potential to profoundly influence Cameroon's regional trade. Except for the several relatively good toll roads that connect major cities (all of them one-lane) roads are poorly maintained and subject to inclement weather, since only 10% of the roadways are tarred. It is likely that within a decade, a great deal of trade between West Africa and Southern Africa will be moving on the network through Yaoundé.
National highways in Cameroon:
- N1: Yaoundé - Bertoua - Ngaoundéré - Garoua - Maroua - Kouséri, border with Chad.
- N2: Yaoundé - Mbalmayo - Ebolowa - Woleu Ntem, border with Gabon.
- N3: Yaoundé - Edéa - Douala - Idenau.
- N4: Yaoundé - Bafia - Bafoussam.
- N5: Douala - Nkongsamba - Bafang - Bafoussam.
- N6: Ejagham, border with Nigeria - Bamenda - Bafoussam - Tibati - Lokoti.
- N7: Edéa - Kribi.
- N8: Mutengene - Kumba - Mamfé.
- N9: Mbalmayo - Nki, border with Congo.
- N10: Yaoundé - Bertoua - Batouri - Kenzou, border with the Central African Republic.
- N11 Bamenda Ring Road Linking, Mezam, Ngokitujia, Mbui, Boyo and Menchum
This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook. CIA.