Gadjiwan

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Gadjiwan

|subdivision_type=Country|subdivision_name=Cameroon {{flagicon|Cameroon}}| subdivision_name1 = Adamawa | subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_type2 = Department | subdivision_name2 = Faro-et-Déo

| subdivision_type3 =arrondissement|subdivision_name3 =

| image =

| caption=

| coordinates = {{coord|7.6500|12.3833|display=inline}}

| elevation_m= 608

| pushpin_map = Cameroon |pushpin_relief=y

| population_total = 1681

| population_as_of = 2005 | population_footnotes =Troisième recensement général de la population et de l'habitat (3e RGPH, 2005), Bureau central des recensements et des études de population du Cameroun (BUCREP), 2010.

}}

Gadjiwan (also Gayivao, Gājiwáu, Gayivayo, Gayioau, Gajiwau, Gadjwan Gadjiwa) is a village in the commune of Mayo-Baléo in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon, near the {{Interlanguage link multi|Cameroon-Nigeria border|fr|3=Frontière entre le Cameroun et le Nigeria|lt=border with Nigeria}}.

Population

In 1971, Gadjiwan contained 394 inhabitants, mainly Kutin.[http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers08-01/02891.pdf Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua], ONAREST, Yaoundé, October 1974, p. 25

At the time of the 2005 census, there were 1681 people in the village of Gadjiwan and 3571 in the canton.

References

{{reflist}}

Bibliography

  • Jean Boutrais (ed.), Peuples et cultures de l'Adamaoua (Cameroun) : Actes du colloque de Ngaoundéré, du 14 au 16 janvier 1992, ORSTOM, Paris ; Ngaoundéré-Anthropos, 1993, 316 p. {{ISBN|2-7099-1167-1}}
  • [http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers08-01/02891.pdf Dictionnaire des villages de l'Adamaoua], ONAREST, Yaoundé, October 1974, 133 p.