The Northwest Region, or North-West Region () is one of ten regions in Cameroon. It's reigonal capitol is Bamenda. The Northwest Region is 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 the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Various Ambazonian nationalist and separatist factions regard the region as being distinct as a polity from Cameroon.