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Geographic map of Cambodia Cambodia Kingdom of Cambodia , is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia . It borders Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of Thailand on the southwest. It spans an area of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles ), and has a population of about 17 million. Its 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 15th century, it began a decline in power (the Post-Angkor Period ) until, in 1863, it became the French Protectorate of Cambodia .
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 the 1993 Cambodian general election , decided by around 90% of registered voters. 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 it a de facto one-party state . The UN now designates it a least developed country . (Full article...
Monks and nuns praying in a pagoda near Phnom Penh Buddhism in Cambodia Khmer Buddhism (Khmer : ព្រះពុទ្ធសាសនានៅកម្ពុជា , UNGEGN : Preăh Pŭtthôsasânéa noŭ Kâmpŭchéa Mahāyāna Buddhism . Today, the predominant form of Buddhism in Cambodia is Theravada Buddhism . It is enshrined in the Cambodian constitution as the official religion of the country. Theravada Buddhism has been the Cambodian state religion since the 13th century (except during the Khmer Rouge period ). As of 2019 it was estimated that 97. 1 percent of the population are Buddhists .
The history of Buddhism in Cambodia spans a number of successive kingdoms and empires. Buddhism entered Cambodia via two different streams. The earliest forms of Buddhism, along with Hindu influences, entered the
Kingdom of Funan with Hindu merchants. In later history, a second stream of Buddhism entered Khmer culture during the Angkor empire when Cambodia absorbed the various Buddhist traditions of the
Mon kingdoms of
Dvaravati and
Haripunchai . (
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Image 1 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 4 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 5 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 6 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 7 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 8 Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 9 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 11 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 13 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 15 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 16 Khmer pagoda in Prek Leap (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 17 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 18 Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 19 Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 20 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 21 Amok Trey , Cambodia’s national dish (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 22 Archaeologists examine prehistoric
cave paintings in
Pursat province (from
Early history of Cambodia )
Image 24 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 25 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 26 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 27 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 29 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 30 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 31 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 32 Aromatic long-grain (
សែនក្រអូប ,
sên krâ-op ) rice, one of the best
paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 33 Children practicing Bokator (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 34 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 35 Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 37 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 38 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 39 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 40 Khmer couple in wedding attires (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 41 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 42 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 43 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 45 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 47 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 48 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 49 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 50 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 51 Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 52 Rooms of the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 53 A fishing hut on the
Tonle Sap (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 54 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 56 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 57 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 58 Archers mounted on elephants (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 59 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 60 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 63 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 64 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 66 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 67 Win-Win Memorial , dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 68 Roman trade with India according to the
Periplus Maris Erythraei , 1st century CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 72 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 73 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 74 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 75 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
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