Green hills and grassland in the Cameroon highlands

Who needs a visa for Cameroon?

Sub-Saharan Africa · Yaoundé

Photo: Trees ForTheFuture / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Of 198 nationalities, 6 enter Cameroon with no paperwork at all. The rest: 192 must be approved before they travel.

We have not found a Cameroon government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Cameroon's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 6

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 192

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

About Cameroon

Region
Middle Africa
Capital
Yaoundé
Population
29,879,337 2025 · 51st of 197
Size
475,442 km² 53rd largest of 199
Density
63 per km²
Languages
English, French
Currency
Central African CFA franc XAF

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.