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Geographic map of Cambodia Cambodia Kingdom of Cambodia , is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia , spanning an area of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles ), bordered by Thailand to the northwest , Laos to the north , Vietnam to the east , and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. The capital and most populous city is Phnom Penh .
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. In the fifteenth century, Cambodia experienced a decline of power , and in 1863, it became a protectorate of France . After a period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War, Cambodia gained independence in 1953. The Vietnam War extended into the country in 1965 via the Ho Chi Minh and Sihanouk trails . A 1970 coup installed the US-aligned Khmer Republic , which was overthrown by the Khmer Rouge in 1975. The Khmer Rouge ruled the country and carried out the Cambodian genocide from 1975 until 1979, when they were ousted in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War . The Vietnamese-occupied People's Republic of Kampuchea became the de facto government. Following the 1991 Paris Peace Accords which formally ended the war with Vietnam , Cambodia was governed by a United Nations mission (1992–93). The UN withdrew after holding elections in which around 90% of the registered voters cast ballots. The 1997 coup d'état consolidated power under Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodian People's Party (CPP). While constitutionally a multi-party state, CPP dominates the political system and dissolved its main opposition party in 2017, making Cambodia a de facto one-party state . (Full article...
Vietnamese Cambodians Vietnamese who live in Cambodia or it refers to Vietnamese who are of full or partial Khmer descent. According to Cambodian sources, in 2013, about 15,000 Vietnamese people live in Cambodia. A Vietnamese source stated that 156,000 people live in Cambodia, while the actual number could be somewhere between 400,000 and one million people, according to independent scholars. They mostly reside in southeastern parts of Cambodia bordering Vietnam or on houseboats in the Tonlé Sap lake and Mekong rivers. The first Vietnamese came to settle modern-day Cambodia from the early 19th century during the era of the Nguyễn lords and most of the Vietnamese came to Cambodia during the periods of French colonial administration and the People's Republic of Kampuchea administration. During the Khmer Republic and Khmer Rouge governments in the 1970s under the Pol Pot regime , the Vietnamese amongst others were targets of mass genocides; thousands of Vietnamese were killed and many more sought refuge in Vietnam.
Ethnic relations between the
Cambodians and Vietnamese are complex, where despite engagement and collaboration between the two countries of
Cambodia and
Vietnam , Vietnamese have been the target of
xenophobic attacks by opposition political parties against Hun Sen's policies since the 1990s. Many of the stateless Vietnamese residents face difficulties in getting access to education, employment, and housing. Although xenophobic sentiments have been a continuing source of concern, they have not been a barrier towards neighbourly ties within the context of
Southeast Asia and other international affairs. (
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Image 2 Roman trade with India according to the
Periplus Maris Erythraei , 1st century CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 3 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 4 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 5 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 6 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 8 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 10 Amok Trey , Cambodia’s national dish (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 12 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 13 A fishing hut on the
Tonle Sap (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 14 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 16 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 17 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 18 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 19 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 20 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 21 Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 23 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 24 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 27 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 28 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 29 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 30 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 31 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 33 Khmer couple in wedding attires (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 34 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 35 Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 37 Khmer pagoda in Prek Leap (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 38 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 39 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 40 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 41 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 42 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 43 Aromatic long-grain (
សែនក្រអូប ,
sên krâ-op ) rice, one of the best
paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 44 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 45 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 46 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 47 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 49 Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 50 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 51 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 52 Rooms of the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 53 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 54 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 55 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 56 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 57 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 58 Archers mounted on elephants (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 59 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 61 Win-Win Memorial , dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 63 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 65 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 66 Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 67 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 68 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 69 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 71 Children practicing Bokator (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 72 Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
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