context: At 475,442 square kilometres (183,569sqmi), Cameroon is the world's 53rd-largest country.[82] It is slightly larger than the nation of Sweden and the state of California; Cameroon is comparable in size to Papua New Guinea. The country is located in Central and West Africa, known as the hinge of Africa, on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.[83] Cameroon lies between latitudes 1° and 13°N, and longitudes 8° and 17°E. Cameroon controls 12 nautical miles of the Atlantic Ocean.
question: How big is the Republic of Cameroon?
answers.text: 475,442 square kilometres 475,442 square kilometres 475,442 square kilometres