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Geographic map of Cambodia
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 . (
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Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr ; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist
revolutionary , politician and a
dictator who ruled
Cambodia as
Prime Minister of
Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a communist and a
Khmer ethnonationalist , he was a leading member of Cambodia's
communist movement, the
Khmer Rouge , from 1963 to 1997 and served as
General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963 to 1981. His administration converted Cambodia into a
one-party
communist state and perpetrated the
Cambodian genocide .
Born to a prosperous farmer in
Prek Sbauv ,
French Cambodia , Pol Pot was educated at some of Cambodia's most elite schools. While in
Paris during the 1940s, he joined the
French Communist Party . Returning to Cambodia in 1953, he involved himself in the
Khmer Viet Minh organisation and its guerrilla war against King
Norodom Sihanouk 's newly independent government. Following the Khmer Viet Minh's 1954 retreat into
North Vietnam , Pol Pot returned to
Phnom Penh , working as a teacher while remaining a central member of Cambodia's
Marxist–Leninist movement. In 1959, he helped formalise the movement into the Kampuchean Labour Party, which was later renamed the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK). To avoid state repression, in 1962 he relocated to a jungle encampment and in 1963 became the CPK's leader. In 1968, he
relaunched the war against Sihanouk's government. After
Lon Nol ousted Sihanouk in a
1970 coup , Pol Pot's forces sided with the deposed leader against
the new government , which was bolstered by the United States military. Aided by the
Viet Cong militia and
North Vietnamese troops , Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces advanced and controlled all of Cambodia by 1975. (
Full article... )
List of selected articles
The following are images from various Cambodia-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 2 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 3 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 4
Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 5 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 6 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 7 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 8 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 9 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 10 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 11 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 12 A fishing hut on the
Tonle Sap (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 13
Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 14
Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 16 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 17
Amok Trey , Cambodia’s national dish (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 18 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 20 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 21 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 22 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 23 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 24 Roman trade with India according to the
Periplus Maris Erythraei , 1st century CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 25 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 26 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 27 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 28
Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 30 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 31 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 32 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 35 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 36
Win-Win Memorial , dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 37
Aromatic
long-grain (
សែនក្រអូប ,
sên krâ-op ) rice, one of the best
paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 39 Rooms of the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 40
Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 42 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 43 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 44 Khmer couple in wedding attires (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 45 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 46
Archers mounted on elephants (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 48 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 51 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 53 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 55 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 56 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 57 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 58 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 60 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 62 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 63 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 64 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 65 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 66 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 67 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 68 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 69 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 70 Children practicing Bokator (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 71 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 72 Khmer pagoda in Prek Leap (from
Culture of Cambodia )
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