Douala is a major city and chief port of Cameroon. It is situated on the south east shore of the Wouri River estuary, on the Atlantic coast 210 kilometres west of Yaounde and has a population of around 900,000. Its industries include breweries, textile factories, and palm-oil, soap, and food-processing plants. It also produces building materials, metalwork, plastics, glass, paper, bicycles, and timber products. Other activities include boat and ship repairing, railway engineering, and radio assembly. Douala's deepwater port handles most of the country's overseas trade. It has special installations for handling timber products, bananas, gasoline, and bauxite, as well as fishing facilities.

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