SOUTH REGION
The South Region is one of the ten Regions of Cameroon. It covers the southern and western part of the country, sharing its boundary with three Central African countries from east to west: Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of Congo, with Ebolowa as Its Chief-town.
It has a coastline on the Gulf of Guinea, which occupies its entire western flank. It shares limits with a Division of the Republic of Congo, a Province of Gabon and the continental Region of Equatorial Guinea. It also shares boundary with the Regions of Littoral, Centre and East of Cameroon.
The Region is made up of four Divisions, two City councils, and 29 Municipal Councils: the Dja and Lobo Division with 8 Councils; the Mvila Division with 8 Councils and a City Council in Ebolowa; the Ocean Division with 9 Councils and one City Council in Kribi, and the Ntem Valley Division with 4 Councils.
The Region covers a surface area of 47,110 km2 and hosted over 534,900 inhabitants in 2005. Its density is 13.4 inhabitants per km². It represented 3.6% of the total population of Cameroon in 2005.
The South Region is a huge ground cover, the rainforest, an area par excellence for agro tourism and ecotourism, where the pygmies, the first inhabitants of the forest, can be found. Numerous rivers, some larger than others, reinforce the humid climate of this Region, with spectacular waterfalls and cascades in places, such as those of the Lobé and Memve’ele.
The Region has an opening to the Atlantic Ocean with about one hundred and fifty kilometres of coastline covered with fine sand. There are vestiges and monuments that mark the settling of the first missionaries, and the history of the colonisation of our country, notably in Kribi and Campo. South Cameroon is the splendour of the natural forest in the Dja reserve, rightly declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
