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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The largest city of Cameroon, in the southwest part of the country on the Bight of Biafra. It is the country's chief port.
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- proper noun the largest city of
Cameroon , situated on the west coast.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the largest city of Cameroon
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Examples
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Be sure the baggage ticket has all appropriate code letters for the trip; the code for the airport in Douala is DLA, Yaoundé airport is NSI, N’Djamena is NDJ, and the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris is CDG.
Of course you want to come to sweaty Cameroon! Kate Fleurange 2008
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Be sure the baggage ticket has all appropriate code letters for the trip; the code for the airport in Douala is DLA, Yaoundé airport is NSI, N’Djamena is NDJ, and the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris is CDG.
Archive 2008-11-01 Kate Fleurange 2008
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We spent the night at a hotel in Douala before taking off the next morning in a tour bus for Yaounde.
Archive 2008-10-01 Anna 2008
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We spent the night at a hotel in Douala before taking off the next morning in a tour bus for Yaounde.
October 5th, 2008 Anna 2008
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Pressures from continuing population growth, notably in the coastal cities, such as Douala in Cameroon and Libreville in Gabon, are having increasing impacts on the coastal environment.
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It was a good way to defuse the controversy over the attribution of ports from which he has himself benefited, such as Douala, in Cameroon, or Abidjan, granted to Bolloré in 2004 by an Ivory Coast government in the throes of war.
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When he was 12, Mr. Bona moved to the Cameroonian city of Douala.
At Home in Music's World Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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Atop his studio's mixing board sat a sheet of paper on which he'd scrawled new words, in his native Douala dialect, for Guillermo Rodríguez Fiffe's 1930s Cuban classic "Bilongo."
At Home in Music's World Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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The World Food Program ships 60 percent of its food aid to the port of Douala in Cameroon, from where it is loaded on to trains and trucks bound for Chad.
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A Douala canton chief, HM Essaka Ekwalla, is calling on his subjects to ignore the skeptics and rush to be vaccinated.
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