{"population":28372687,"blurb":{"text":"Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea, and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both geostrategic locations. Cameroon's population of nearly 31 million people speak 250 native languages, in addition to the national tongues of English and French. The capital city of the country is Yaoundé.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon"},"vexillology":{"text":"The national flag of Cameroon is a vertical tricolour of green, red and yellow pales, with one yellow five-pointed star in its center. This flag was originally adopted on 26 October 1957 as a plain tricolor then gained its present form on 20 May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. There is a wide variation in the size of the central star, although it is always contained within the inside stripe.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cameroon"},"flagDesign":{"text":"The colour scheme uses the traditional pan-African colours (Cameroon was the second state to adopt them). The centre stripe is thought to stand for unity: red is the colour of unity, and the star is referred to as \"the star of unity\". The yellow stands for the sun, and also the savannas in the northern part of the country, while the green is for the forests in the southern part of Cameroon.\n\nThe previous flag of Cameroon, used from 1961 to 1975, had a similar colour scheme, but with two gold (darker than the third stripe by comparison) stars in the upper half of the green. It was adopted after British Southern Cameroons joined with Republic of Cameroon to create the Federal Republic of Cameroon. The two stars represented the two components of the federation, East Cameroon and West Cameroon.\n\nThe original flag of the State of Cameroon and the Republic of Cameroon, made law by Law No. 46 of 26 October 1957, was the simple tricolour. It was confirmed on 21 February 1960 in the new constitution.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cameroon"},"photos":["https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Maison_obus.jpg/500px-Maison_obus.jpg","https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Elephants_around_tree_in_Waza%2C_Cameroon.jpg/500px-Elephants_around_tree_in_Waza%2C_Cameroon.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Baka_dancers_June_2006.jpg","https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Bateau_au_port_de_Douala1.jpg/500px-Bateau_au_port_de_Douala1.jpg"]}