Details

Subject(s)

• Administrative and political divisions—Maps [Browse]
• Nigeria—Administrative and political divisions [Browse]
• Great Britain—Colonies [Browse]
• Nigeria—Maps [Browse]

Issuing body

• Great Britain. Colonial Office [Browse]
• Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Thematic maps [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• thematic maps [Browse]

Series

• Colonial (Great Britain. Colonial Office) ; no. 309. [More in this series]
• Colonial no. 309

Notes

• The Cameroons under the United Kingdom Trusteeship consisted of two mountainous strips divided by the Benue river by a gap of approximately 45 miles.
• "1850/16/3-54"
• Map shows: international, provincial, Nigeria-Cameroons, divisional, and district boundaries; customs stations; two classes of roads; railways; lighthouses; telegraph lines; wireless stations; and native courts. The Trust Territory administered as part of Bornu, Adamawa, Benue, is shown by color code.
• Original map is filed in the Map/Geospatial Center, a map reproduction is included in companion volume.
• "Crown copyright reserved"
• Map shows the Trust Territory administered as part northern region of Nigeria referred as Northern Cameroon or northern areas that joined Nigeria in 1961.

With

Issued to accompany volume: Report by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the administration of the Cameroons under United Kingdom Trusteeship for the year 1953 / London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1954.

Geographic coverage

Map shows part of northern Nigeria and Cameroon.

Other format(s)

Available also online through: Princeton University Libraries, Digital Map & Geographic Data Web site.

Other title(s)

Cameroons (North)

Refer to this map as

• CAMEROONS (North) : Scale:- 1:1,000,000

In

Colonial Office. Report by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the administration of the Cameroons under United Kingdom trusteeship for the year 1953. Colonial 309, map in pocket facing page 228. London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1954. (228 pages: 3 maps ; 26 cm)

OCLC

1340473462

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