**1. Introduction**

African countries are largely made up of autonomous ethnic entities within the nation-state structure. These are territorial entities carved out when Africa was partitioned by European countries in 1884. The partitioning equally split linguistic entities but did not detach them from their linguistic entities. Cameroon has evolved in the same way. The contemporary period has become a central feature of the problematic of nation-building process in Africa. Cameroon has a complex linguistic context. More than approximately 280 languages are spoken in Cameroon. The way these languages are used to discuss the concept of "Country" makes it difficult to state with certainty whether Cameroon is a multiethnic nation, a multinational state or a territory with many nations or a confederation of countries. The analyses of the naming of groups of people, villages and cultural areas will shade light on the concept of the notion of country in Cameroon. Mercado [1] had claimed that Cameroon shows many signs of being a multinational state on multiple levels but did not move further to elucidate her claims. Her arguments presented Cameroon as being a multinational state. This paper sets out to demonstrate the claims that the territory Cameroon is made up of many national territories on linguistic background and expressions.
