Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia. 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. 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...)
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Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor, SiemReap, Cambodia Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor is a historic hotel located in Siem Reap, Cambodia. First opened in 1932, it was established by French town planner Ernest Hébrard to accommodate the early explorers and tourists visiting the world heritage site Angkor Wat.
Referred to as 'La Grande Dame' of Angkor’, the hotel has welcomed personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Victor Goloubew, Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon, Jacqueline Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Sultan Ibrahim Al-Masyhur, Queen Sofía, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, Lee Hsien Loong, José Carreras, Roger Moore, Chris Noth, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama among many others. (Full article...)
The following are images from various Cambodia-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 2Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 6Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 7Moonlight pavilion in Phnom Penh (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 8Cambodian Pidan (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 10An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 12Hun Sen was the longest-serving head of government in Cambodia's history. (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 13Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 14Floating homes on the Mekong (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 15Coronation of Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 16Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 17Archers mounted on war elephants, stone relief at the Bayon (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 18Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
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Image 20A map of forests, vegetation and land use in Cambodia (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 21Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the Cardamom Mountains (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 23Cambodian musical instruments (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 25Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 26Roman trade with India according to the Periplus Maris Erythraei, 1st century CE (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 29A farm in Kampot province (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 30A fishing hut on the Tonle Sap (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 31Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 32Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 33Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 34Map 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)
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Image 361780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 37Archaeologists examine prehistoric cave paintings in Pursat province (from Early history of Cambodia)
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Image 39A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 40Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 41The volume of Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
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Image 42Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 43Geographic map of Cambodia (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 44Portrait statue of Jayavarman VII (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 45Emblem of the Salvation Front at the former head office in Phnom Penh (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 46Mountain panorama view in Mondulkiri Province, north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 47A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source: DANIDA (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 48A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
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Image 49Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 50Traditional Khmer music performance (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 51The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 52Rice fields in Takeo Province (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 53Bakong, one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 54Traditional male clothing (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 55The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 56Flag of Cambodia pre-1864 (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 57Longvek, the former capital of Cambodia (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 58Topography of Cambodia (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 60Unauthorized sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 61Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 62The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 63Aromatic long-grain ( សែនក្រអូប, sên krâ-op) rice, one of the best paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 65Cambodian farmers planting rice (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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