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The Northwest Region, or North-West Region (French: Région du Nord-Ouest) is a region with special status in Cameroon. Its capital is Bamenda. The Northwest Region was part of the Southern Cameroons, found in the western highlands of Cameroon. It is bordered to the southwest by the Southwest Region, to the south by the West Region, to the east by the Adamawa Region, and to the north by Nigeria. Various Ambazonian nationalist and separatist factions regard the region as being distinct as a polity from Cameroon.
In 1919, the Northwest Region became solely administered by the United Kingdom. In 1961, the region joined the Cameroon. Ambazonian separatists regard both the North-West and South-West regions as being constituent components of their envisaged breakaway state.