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Geographic map of Cambodia Cambodia Kingdom of Cambodia , is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula . It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of Thailand in the southwest. It spans an area of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles ), dominated by a low-lying plain and the confluence of the Mekong river and Tonlé Sap , Southeast Asia's largest lake. It is dominated by a tropical climate and is rich in biodiversity. Cambodia has a population of about 17 million people, the majority of which are ethnically Khmer . Its capital and most populous city is Phnom Penh , followed by Siem Reap and Battambang .
In 802 AD, Jayavarman II declared himself king, uniting the warring Khmer princes of Chenla under the name "Kambuja". This marked the beginning of the Khmer Empire . The Indianised kingdom facilitated the spread of first Hinduism and then Buddhism to Southeast Asia and undertook religious infrastructural projects throughout the region, the most famous of which is Angkor Wat . In the 15th century, it began a decline in power until, in 1863, Cambodia became a French protectorate . Following Japanese occupation during World War II , Cambodia declared independence from France in 1953. The Vietnam War embroiled the country in civil war during the 1960s, culminating in a 1970 coup which installed the US-aligned Khmer Republic and the takeover of the communist Khmer Rouge in 1975 . The Khmer Rouge ruled the country and carried out the Cambodian genocide from 1975 until 1979, until they were ousted during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War . Peace was restored by the 1991 Paris Peace Accords and subsequent United Nations peacekeeping mission , establishing a new constitution, holding the 1993 general election , and ending long-term insurgencies . The 1997 coup d'état consolidated power under Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodian People's Party (CPP). (Full article...
Angkor Thom Khmer : អង្គរធំ [ʔɑŋkɔː tʰom] Nokor Thom (Khmer : នគរធំ [nɔkɔː tʰom] Cambodia , was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer Empire . It was established in the late twelfth century by King Jayavarman VII . It covers an area of 9 km², within which are located several monuments from earlier eras as well as those established by Jayavarman and his successors. At the centre of the city is Jayavarman's state temple, the Bayon , with the other major sites clustered around the Victory Square immediately to the north. The site is one of the major tourist attractions of Southeast Asia. (Full article...
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Image 2 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 3 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 4 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 5 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 7 Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 9 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 10 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 11 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 12 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 13 Map of South-east Asia c. 900 CE, showing the
Khmer Empire in red,
Champa in yellow and
Haripunjaya in light green, plus additional surrounding states (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 14 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 15 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 16 Archaeologists examine prehistoric
cave paintings in
Pursat province (from
Early history of Cambodia )
Image 17 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 18 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 19 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 20 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 21 Aromatic long-grain (
សែនក្រអូប ,
sên krâ-op ) rice, one of the best
paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 22 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 23 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 24 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 25 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 27 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 28 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 29 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 30 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 32 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 33 Hun Sen was the longest-serving head of government in Cambodia's history. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 37 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 38 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 40 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 41 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 42 Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 43 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 46 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 47 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 48 Win-Win Memorial , dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 50 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 51 Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 53 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 54 Roman trade with India according to the
Periplus Maris Erythraei , 1st century CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 55 Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 56 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 58 Archers mounted on
war elephants , stone relief at the
Bayon (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 60 Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 61 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 62 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 63 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 64 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 65 Rooms of the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 66 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 67 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 68 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 69 A fishing hut on the
Tonle Sap (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 70 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
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