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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 wildlife and 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...
The Khmer Rouge Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the Democratic Kampuchea through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihanouk to describe his country's heterogeneous, communist-led dissidents, with whom he allied after the 1970 Cambodian coup d'état .
The Kampuchea Revolutionary Army was slowly built up in the forests of eastern Cambodia during the late 1960s, supported by the People's Army of Vietnam , the Viet Cong , the Pathet Lao , and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Although it originally fought against Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge changed its position and supported Sihanouk following the CCP's advice after he was overthrown in a 1970 coup d'état by Lon Nol who established the pro-American Khmer Republic . Despite a massive American bombing campaign (Operation Freedom Deal ) against them, the Khmer Rouge won the Cambodian Civil War when they captured the Cambodian capital and overthrew the Khmer Republic in 1975. Following their victory, the Khmer Rouge, who were led by Pol Pot , Nuon Chea , Ieng Sary , Son Sen , and Khieu Samphan , immediately set about forcibly evacuating the country's major cities. In 1976, they renamed the country Democratic Kampuchea. (Full article...
The following are images from various Cambodia-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 3 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 4 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 5 Hun Sen was the longest-serving head of government in Cambodia's history. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 6 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 7 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 8 Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 9 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 12 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 13 Archaeologists examine prehistoric
cave paintings in
Pursat province (from
Early history of Cambodia )
Image 15 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 16 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 17 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 18 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 19 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 21 Roman trade with India according to the
Periplus Maris Erythraei , 1st century CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 22 Archers mounted on
war elephants , stone relief at the
Bayon (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 23 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 24 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 25 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 26 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 27 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 28 Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 29 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 30 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 31 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 33 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 35 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 36 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 37 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 38 Win-Win Memorial , dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 39 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 42 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 44 Rooms of the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 45 Amok Trey , Cambodia’s national dish (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 46 Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 47 A fishing hut on the
Tonle Sap (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 48 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 49 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 51 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 52 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 53 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 55 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 56 Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 57 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 58 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 59 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 60 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 61 Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 62 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 63 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 66 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 67 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 68 Aromatic long-grain (
សែនក្រអូប ,
sên krâ-op ) rice, one of the best
paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 69 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 70 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 71 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
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