Cameroon
Post Offices from 1.2.1887 to 18.2.1916
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The former German colony of Cameroon Lies in the north-eastern corner of
the Gulf of Guinea, between latitudes
1.5 degrees South and 13 degrees North and longitudes 8.5 and 19 degrees
East. The coastline extends for some 480
km from North to South as the crow flies, but is actually much longer
because of its very considerable jaggedness.
About
150 kms of this length belonged to the former Spanish colony of Rio Muni.
The northernmost point of the colony is at Lake Chad,
the southernmost at the river Congo. Towards the East at one point the
territory reached the Ubangi. In the North-west Cameroon
bordered Nigeria and in the East and South French Equatorial Africa.
In 1914 the colony covered roughly 761,000 sq. kms or more than twice
the area of present day Germany. Of this, an area
of about 250,000 sq. kms only became part of the colony through an
exchange of territory provided for by the Treaty of 4th November
1911 between France and Germany. (New-Cameroon). The population was
estimated to be between 3 and 4 million, of these 1537 Europeans.