Portal:Cambodia

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Cambodia, officially the 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...)

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Middle Khmer is the historical stage of the Khmer language as it existed between the 14th and 18th centuries, spanning the period between Old Khmer and the modern language. The beginning of the Middle Khmer period roughly coincides with the fall of the Angkorian Khmer Empire to the Siamese Ayutthaya Kingdom and the period of Cambodian history popularly referred to as the Post-Angkor Period. The Middle Khmer period was a stage of transition which saw relatively rapid and dramatic changes, especially in phonology, that ended with the emergence of a language recognizable as Modern Khmer approximately concurrent with the 1777 coronation of Ang Eng, the father of the poet-king Ang Duong.

Khmer has been written in an Indic-based script since the 6th–7th century. Old Khmer and the changes of Middle Khmer are recorded by an extensive epigraphy which has allowed Middle Khmer to be reconstructed and studied. During the Middle Khmer period, the language lost the voiced stops of Old Khmer which resulted in comprehensive compensatory changes to the vowel system. Old Khmer vowels following the formerly voiced stops remained mostly unchanged while the same vowels following the originally corresponding voiceless initials were lowered by different processes including diphthongization. Furthermore, the loss of final "-r", all but complete in most modern Khmer dialects, and the merger of syllable-final -/s/ to -/h/ took place during the Middle Khmer period. (Full article...)

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Image 1Pchum Ben, also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 2Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
Image 3Eisenhower and Sihanouk in 1959 (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
Image 4A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 5A map of Cambodia's Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 6Emblem of the Salvation Front at the former head office in Phnom Penh (from History of Cambodia)
Image 7The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from History of Cambodia)
Image 8Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from History of Cambodia)
Image 9Flag of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (from History of Cambodia)
Image 10Cambodian Pidan (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 11Traditional male clothing (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 12Phnom Penh in 1964. (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
Image 13Win-Win Memorial, dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from History of Cambodia)
Image 141780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from History of Cambodia)
Image 15Chrey Thom Waterfall Mondulkiri Province (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 16The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from History of Cambodia)
Image 17
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Image 18John F. Kennedy and Prince Sihanouk in New York, 1961 (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
Image 19Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 20Archers mounted on war elephants, stone relief at the Bayon (from History of Cambodia)
Image 21Map 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 22Bakong, one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from History of Cambodia)
Image 23Phnom Penh in 1973 amid the Cambodian Civil War. (from History of Cambodia)
Image 24Hun Sen was the longest-serving head of government in Cambodia's history. (from History of Cambodia)
Image 25Unauthorized sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 26Coronation of Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from History of Cambodia)
Image 27Kampot Province, countryside with remote Elephant Mountains (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 28A fishing hut on the Tonle Sap (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
Image 29Moonlight pavilion in Phnom Penh (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 30An overview of drainage divides (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 31Sisowath Sirik Matak with President Richard Nixon (from History of Cambodia)
Image 32Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 33Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 34A farm in Kampot province (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
Image 35Cambodian farmers planting rice (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
Image 36A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 37Floating homes on the Mekong (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 38Longvek, the former capital of Cambodia (from History of Cambodia)
Image 39Portrait statue of Jayavarman VII (from History of Cambodia)
Image 40Khmer folk dance (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 41The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 42Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from History of Cambodia)
Image 43The volume of Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 44An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from History of Cambodia)
Image 45Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
Image 46Geographic map of Cambodia (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 47Rice fields in Takeo Province (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
Image 48Flag of Cambodia pre-1864 (from History of Cambodia)
Image 49Flag of Democratic Kampuchea (from History of Cambodia)
Image 50King Norodom Sihamoni (from History of Cambodia)
Image 51Cambodian musical instruments (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 52Traditional Khmer music performance (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 53Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 54Roman trade with India according to the Periplus Maris Erythraei, 1st century CE (from History of Cambodia)
Image 55A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
Image 56Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 57Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 58Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from History of Cambodia)
Image 59A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source: DANIDA (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 60Lon Nol (from History of Cambodia)
Image 61Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from History of Cambodia)
Image 62Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from History of Cambodia)
Image 63Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from Culture of Cambodia)
Image 64Aromatic long-grain (សែនក្រអូប, sên krâ-op) rice, one of the best paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
Image 65Mekong tributary, Stung Treng Province (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 66Archaeologists examine prehistoric cave paintings in Pursat province (from Early history of Cambodia)
Image 67Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
Image 68Mountain panorama view in Mondulkiri Province, north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 69A map of forests, vegetation and land use in Cambodia (from Geography of Cambodia)
Image 70Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the Cardamom Mountains (from Geography of Cambodia)

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... that the French, when they began to colonize Cambodia, agreed that Angkor Wat was in Thailand?
... that Cambodian architect Vann Molyvann declined a request from Lee Kuan Yew to help design Singapore?
... that in Thailand and Cambodia, cats are used in a procession to ask for rain?
... that had Cambodian swimmer Apsara Sakbun declined her invitation to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics, her sister would have become an Olympian instead?
... that an American citizen was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to overthrow the government of Cambodia?
... that Cambodia's first science-fiction film, Karmalink, combines Buddhist concepts of karma with themes of artificial intelligence?

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...that King Norodom Sihamoni is one-fourth Italian?

...that the kouprey was declared the national animal of Cambodia by Norodom Sihanouk?

...that the Cambodia national football team finished fourth in the Asian Cup 1972?

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Famous Cambodians

Notable Cambodians include:

François Chau - Actor/Fisherman
Chuon Nath - Supreme Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism, father of the Khmer dictionary
Patricia Hy-Boulais - Professional tennis player
Keng Vannsak - Famous Khmer writer, philosopher and linguist
Khun Srun - Khmer writer
Kong Bunchhoeun - Famous Khmer poet and songwriter.
Kris Dim - Pro bodybuilder
Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt - Angelina Jolie's adopted son
Haing S. Ngor - Academy Award winner
Somaly Mam - Human rights activist, Olympic flag bearer
Rithy Panh - Director
Dith Pran - New York Times photo journalist
Norodom Sihanouk - King, Prime Minister, Actor, Director, Songwriter, Screenwriter
Loung Ung - Human rights activist
Chhun Yasith - President of Cambodian Freedom Fighters
Ros Sereysothea - One of the greatest female Khmer singers from the 1960s and early '70s
Sinn Sisamouth - Considered the greatest Khmer singer ever who also often sang with Sothea
Soth Polin - Famous Khmer writer
Touch Sunnix - Famous female Khmer singer.
Vann Molyvann - Considered the greatest Cambodian architect
Vong Sarendy - Fleet Admiral in the Khmer Republic, head of the Khmer National Navy (MNK) from 1970 to 1975.
Sosthène Fernandez - commander-in-Chief of the Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK) and chief of general staff of the Khmer Republic.

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