Mbouda
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File:Monument du Cinquantenaire de la Fête de la Jeunesse à Mbouda.jpg
Mbouda is the capital of the Bamboutos department of West Province, Cameroon. Projected to be the fourteenth fastest growing city on the African continent between 2020 and 2025, with a 5.16% growth. {{cite web|url=https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-fastest-growing-cities/|publisher=virtual capitalist| access-date=2021-08-17|title=Ranked: The World's Fastest Growing Cities|date=13 August 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813174630/https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-fastest-growing-cities/|archive-date=13 August 2021}}
{{coord|5|38|N|10|15|E|region:CM_type:city|display=title}}
File:Chargement de véhicule à Mbouda.jpg
Notable people born in Mbouda
- {{ill|Tony Sunshyne|fr}} (Gilbert Nguita Noumessi), author / composer.
- {{ill|Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi|fr}}, politician.
- {{ill|Dieudonné Watio|fr}}, bishop, born in Balatchi in 1946.
- Jacques Toussele, photographer, born in Bamessingué
Buildings
File:Bâtiment de la Préfecture de Mbouda.jpg|Mbouda Prefecture building
File:Sous-Préfecture de Mbouda.jpg|Mbouda sub-prefecture
File:Marie de Mbouda.jpg|Mbouda City Hall
File:Tribunal de Mbouda.jpg|Mbouda Palace of Justice.
In 2022, American YouTuber MrBeast built a well in the city.{{Citation |title=We Built Wells in Africa! |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSQUg-h8G4s |language=en |access-date=2022-05-22}}File:Marie de Mbouda.jpg
Sport
Mbouda has a municipal stadium,{{Cite web|last=Camfoot.com|date=2020-07-25|title=Le stade municipal de Mbouda aux normes de la Fifa|url=https://www.camfoot.com/actualites/le-stade-municipal-de-mbouda-aux,9261.html|access-date=2020-07-25|website=Camfoot.com|language=fr}} renovated from 2007 to 2009, then a second time between 2018 and 2020 to be a training stadium for the Africa Cup of Nations 2021. It is the home of Bamboutos FC.
File:Stade Municipal Mbouda.jpg|May 2015
File:Stade Municipal de Mbouda.jpg|February 2016
File:Stade Mbouda.jpg|January 2019
File:Stade Mbouda en nov 2019.jpg|November 2019
File:Stade Municipal de Mbouda, Nov 2019.jpg|November 2019
References
{{Communes of West Region, Cameroon}}
Category:Populated places in West Region (Cameroon)
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