<p><b style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Garoua</b><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> est la capitale de la </span><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9gion_du_Nord_(Cameroun)" title="Région du Nord (Cameroun)" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">région du Nord</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> du </span><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroun" title="Cameroun" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Cameroun</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> et le chef-lieu du département de la </span><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9nou%C3%A9_(d%C3%A9partement)" title="Bénoué (département)" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bénoué</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Elle a été érigée en </span><b style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Communauté urbaine de</b></p><p><b style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Garoua</b><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> en 2008</span><span id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: text-top; position: relative; font-size: 0.8em; top: -5px; padding-left: 1px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua#cite_note-1" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">1</a></span><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. La ville compte 900 000 habitants environ en 2018 et est la troisième ville du pays. Elle était l'une des premières villes du Cameroun</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> avant la colonisation et était la capitale régionale du Grand-nord jusqu'en 1982. La langue principale d'échange de la ville est le </span><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peul" title="Peul" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Fulfuldé</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span></p><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-size: 1.5em; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Géographie">Géographie</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garoua&veaction=edit&section=1" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" title="Modifier la section : Géographie" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); 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margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Elle est située sur la <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_nationale_1_(Cameroun)" title="Route nationale 1 (Cameroun)" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">route nationale 1</a> à 1 107 <abbr class="abbr" title="kilomètre" style="border-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;">km</abbr> au nord de la capitale camerounaise: <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaound%C3%A9" title="Yaoundé" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Yaoundé</a>. Oasis de</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> verdure au cœur de la <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brousse_(v%C3%A9g%C3%A9tation)" title="Brousse (végétation)" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">brousse</a>, Garoua est la seule ville traversée par la rivière <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9nou%C3%A9" title="Bénoué" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bénoué</a> au Cameroun. Une</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> ville plaisante et bien équipée qui constitue une plaque tournante des mouvements touristiques dirigés, d'une</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> part vers le nord, le <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_national_de_Waza" title="Parc national de Waza" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">parc national de Waza</a> et la région des <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapsiki_(peuple_d%27Afrique)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kapsiki (peuple d'Afrique)" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Kapsiki</a>, d'autre part, vers le sud, les parcs de</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> la <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_national_de_la_B%C3%A9nou%C3%A9" title="Parc national de la Bénoué" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bénoué</a>, de <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_national_de_Bouba_Ndjida" title="Parc national de Bouba Ndjida" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bouba Ndjida</a> et la <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_national_du_Faro" title="Parc national du Faro" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">réserve du Faro</a>.</p><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-size: 1.5em; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Climat">Climat</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garoua&veaction=edit&section=2" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" title="Modifier la section : Climat" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; 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padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); font-size: 13.16px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foulbere,_Garoua,_Cameroon_-_panoramio_(1).jpg?uselang=fr" class="image" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Foulbere%2C_Garoua%2C_Cameroon_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/220px-Foulbere%2C_Garoua%2C_Cameroon_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Foulbere%2C_Garoua%2C_Cameroon_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/330px-Foulbere%2C_Garoua%2C_Cameroon_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Foulbere%2C_Garoua%2C_Cameroon_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/440px-Foulbere%2C_Garoua%2C_Cameroon_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Foulbere,_Garoua,_Cameroon_-_panoramio_(1).jpg" class="internal" title="Agrandir" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("/w/resources/src/mediawiki.skinning/images/magnify-clip-ltr.svg?8330e"); background-position-x: initial, initial; background-position-y: initial, initial; background-size: initial, initial; background-repeat: repeat, repeat; background-attachment: initial, initial; background-origin: initial, initial; background-clip: initial, initial; display: block; text-indent: 15px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; width: 15px; height: 11px; user-select: none;"></a></div>Vue panoramique de Garoua au Cameroun, ville au climat sahélien.</div></div></div><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Garoua est doté d'un <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climat_tropical" title="Climat tropical" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">climat tropical</a> de type Aw selon la <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_de_K%C3%B6ppen" title="Classification de Köppen" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">classification de Köppen</a>, avec une température</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> annuelle moyenne de <span title="82 °F ou 301 K">27,8 </span><abbr class="abbr" title="degré Celsius" style="border-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;">°C</abbr> et des précipitations d'environ 1 005 <abbr class="abbr" title="millimètre" style="border-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: initial;">mm</abbr> par an, moins importantes en hiver</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> qu'en été<span id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: text-top; position: relative; font-size: 0.8em; top: -5px; padding-left: 1px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua#cite_note-2" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">2</a></span>.</p><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; overflow: hidden; 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vertical-align: text-top; position: relative; font-size: 0.8em; top: -5px; padding-left: 1px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua#cite_note-3" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">3</a></span>) et <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pitoa_(Garoua)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pitoa (Garoua) (page inexistante)" style="color: rgb(186, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Pitoa</a> (Garoua II<sup style="line-height: 1;">e</sup><span id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: text-top; position: relative; font-size: 0.8em; top: -5px; 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text-decoration-style: initial;"><span class="romain" style="text-transform: lowercase; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps;">xiv</span><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10.08px;">e</sup></abbr> siècle, en provenance de <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouta_Toro" class="mw-redirect" title="Fouta Toro" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Fouta Toro</a> dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, les pasteurs <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peuls" title="Peuls" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">foulbé</a> transitent</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> par les différentes provinces de l'<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_du_Mali" title="Empire du Mali" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">empire du Mali</a> de l'époque, et notamment de la <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_du_Macina" title="Empire du Macina" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Macina</a> puis le <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger" title="Niger" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Niger</a>, le</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> pays <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haoussas" title="Haoussas" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Haoussa</a> avant d'aboutir au <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_Tchad" title="Lac Tchad" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">lac Tchad</a>. Ils assistent ainsi à la constitution du <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royaume_du_Kanem-Bornou" title="Royaume du Kanem-Bornou" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">royaume du Kanem-</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royaume_du_Kanem-Bornou" title="Royaume du Kanem-Bornou" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bornou</a> par les <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanouri_(peuple)" title="Kanouri (peuple)" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">kanouri</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">La ville a été fondée par l'émir <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peuls" title="Peuls" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Peul</a> Modibbo Adama, qui a établi l'émirat d'Adamawa au XIXe siècle<span id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: text-top; position: relative; font-size: 0.8em; top: -5px; padding-left: 1px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua#cite_note-5" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">5</a></span>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pendant la <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campagne_d%27Afrique_de_l%27Ouest" title="Campagne d'Afrique de l'Ouest" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Première guerre mondiale</a>, l'<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allemagne" title="Allemagne" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Allemagne</a> livre d'importants combats pour défendre la ville qui</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> appartient au <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamerun" title="Kamerun" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Kamerun</a>. Le siège de Garoua débute le <time class="nowrap" datetime="1915-01-15" data-sort-value="1915-01-15" style="white-space: nowrap;">15 janvier 1915</time> et se termine le <time class="nowrap" datetime="1915-06-10" data-sort-value="1915-06-10" style="white-space: nowrap;">10 juin 1915</time>, après cinq</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mois de résistance allemande<span id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: text-top; position: relative; font-size: 0.8em; top: -5px; padding-left: 1px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua#cite_note-6" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">6</a></span>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">La population de la ville était de 30 000 personnes en 1967<span id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: text-top; position: relative; font-size: 0.8em; top: -5px; padding-left: 1px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua#cite_note-7" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">7</a></span>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Garoua est la ville natale du premier président camerounais, <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadou_Ahidjo" title="Ahmadou Ahidjo" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Ahmadou Ahidjo</a>. À ce titre, Garoua a bénéficié de beaucoup d'infrastructures parmi lesquelles un <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9roport" title="Aéroport" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">aéroport</a> international<span id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: text-top; position: relative; font-size: 0.8em; top: -5px; padding-left: 1px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garoua#cite_note-8" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">8</a></span>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Le gouvernement a créé, le <time class="nowrap" datetime="2008-01-17" data-sort-value="2008-01-17" style="white-space: nowrap;">17 janvier 2008</time>, une communauté urbaine à Garoua.</p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></span><br></p>