Jakiri council is one of the six municipalities in Bui Division in the North West Region of Cameroon. It is located some 80 km from Bamenda on the ring road that passes through most of the divisional headquarters in the North West Region. At the centre of Jakiri, the road branches off to Fumban in the West Region of Cameroon. The municipality covers the same administrative and geographical area like the subdivision. It covers a surface area of about 675 km2 and a population of about 9959 inhabitants (national population census, 2005). Population figures estimate during village diagnoses in March 2012 stands at 59951. It shares boundaries with the following councils; in Bui division with Kumbo to the North, Elak Oku to the West and Mbiame to the East, to the South, it shares boundary with Babessi from Ngoketunjia division and to the South East, it shares boundary with Bangoran from the West Region. The municipality is located on latitude 60 N of the equator and longitude 100 E of the Greenwich Meridian.