Place:Kousséri, Nord-Cameroun, Cameroon

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NameKousséri
Alt namesFort Foureausource: Times Atlas of the World (1994) p 66
Fort-Foureausource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Koussérisource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCity
Coordinates12.083°N 15.033°E
Located inNord-Cameroun, Cameroon
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Kousséri (from quṣūr meaning "palaces"), founded and known as Mser in the indigenous Mser language is a city in Far North Province, Cameroon. It is the capital of the Logone-et-Chari department. It is a market town, and its population has recently been swollen by refugees from Chad. It had a population of 89,123 at the 2005 Census. The majority of the population are Shuwa Arabs with Chadian Arabic used as the lingua franca.

It forms a transborder agglomeration with the city of N'Djamena, capital of Chad, from which it is separated by the Logone River and the Chari River.

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