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Cambodia , officially the 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... )
U.S. tanks entering
Snuol in Cambodia in 1970.
The Cambodian Civil War (Khmer : សង្គ្រាមស៊ីវិលកម្ពុជា , UNGEGN : Sângkréam Sivĭl Kâmpŭchéa ) was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge , supported by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong ) against the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, after October 1970, the Khmer Republic , which had succeeded the kingdom (both supported by the United States and South Vietnam ).
The struggle was complicated by the influence and actions of the allies of the two warring sides. North Vietnam's
People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) involvement was designed to protect its Base Areas and sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia, without which it would have been harder to pursue its military effort in
South Vietnam . Their presence was at first tolerated by Prince
Sihanouk , the Cambodian head of state, but domestic resistance combined with China and
North Vietnam continuing to provide aid to the anti-government Khmer Rouge alarmed Sihanouk and caused him to go to
Moscow to request the
Soviets rein in the behavior of North Vietnam. The
deposition of Sihanouk by the Cambodian National Assembly in March 1970 , following wide scale protests in the capital against the presence of PAVN troops in the country, put a
pro-American government in power (later declared the Khmer Republic) which demanded that the PAVN leave Cambodia. The PAVN refused and, at the request of the Khmer Rouge, promptly invaded Cambodia in force. (
Full article... )
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The following are images from various Cambodia-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 3 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 5 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 6 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 7 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 8 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 9 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 11 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in 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 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 15 Win-Win Memorial , dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 16 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 17 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 18 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 19 Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 20 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 21 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 22 A fishing hut on the
Tonle Sap (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 23 Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 25 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 26 Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 27 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 28 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 29 Roman trade with India according to the
Periplus Maris Erythraei , 1st century CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 30 Rooms of the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 31 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 34 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 35 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 37 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 38 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 40 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 41 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 42 Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture 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 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 45 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 46 Khmer pagoda in Prek Leap (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 47 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 48 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 51 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 52 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 54 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 55 Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 56 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 57 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 58 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 59 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 61 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 62 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 63 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 64 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 65 Archers mounted on elephants (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 66 Khmer couple in wedding attires (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 67 Children practicing Bokator (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 69 Amok Trey , Cambodia’s national dish (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 71 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 72 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
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