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Cambodia (English: /kæmˈbdiə/; also Kampuchea English: /ˌkæmpʊˈə/; Khmer: កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: Khmer: [kampuciə]), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , 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 largest city is Phnom Penh. The region now known as Cambodia has been inhabited since prehistoric t…

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Angkor
Angkor
Phumĭ Véal
Angkor (Khmer: អង្គរ Khmer: [ʔɑŋkɔː], 'Capital city'), also known as Yasodharapura (Khmer: យសោធរបុរៈ; Sanskrit: यशोधरपुर), was the capital city of the Khmer Empire. The city and empire flourished from approximately the 9th to the 15th centuries. The city houses the Angkor Wat, one of Cambodia's most popular tourist attractions. The name Angkor is derived from nokor (), a Khmer word meaning "kingdom" which in turn derived from Sanskrit nagara (), meaning "city". The Angkorian period began in AD …
wikipedia/Angkor
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Ta Prohm
Ta Prohm
Phumĭ Srăh Sráng
Ta Prohm (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម, UNGEGN: , ALA-LC: Khmer: [taː prom]; "Ancestor Brahma") is the modern name of a temple near the city of Siem Reap, Cambodia, approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray. It was built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th century and early 13th century and was originally called Rajavihara (Khmer: រាជវិហារ, UNGEGN: , ALA-LC: Khmer: [riəc.vihiə]; "Royal Monastery"). It was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman …
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Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei
Phumĭ Bântéay Srei
Banteay Srei or Banteay Srey (Khmer: បន្ទាយស្រី Khmer: [ɓɑntiəj srəj]) is a 10th-century Cambodian temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Located in the area of Angkor, it lies near the hill of Phnom Dei, north-east of the main group of temples that once belonged to the medieval capitals of Yasodharapura and Angkor Thom. Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today. The buildings themsel…
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Preah Khan (Khmer: ប្រាសាទព្រះខ័ន; "Royal Sword") is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the 12th century for King Jayavarman VII to honor his father. It is located northeast of Angkor Thom and just west of the Jayatataka baray, with which it was associated. It was the centre of a substantial organisation, with almost 100,000 officials and servants. The temple is flat in design, with a basic plan of successive rectangular galleries around a Buddhist sanctuary complicated by Hindu satellite te…
wikipedia/Preah_Khan
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Royal Palace, Phnom Penh
Royal Palace, Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh
The Royal Palace of Cambodia (Khmer: ព្រះបរមរាជវាំង) is a complex of buildings which serves as the royal residence of the King of Cambodia. Its full name in Khmer is the Preah Barom Reacheaveang Chaktomuk Serey Mongkol (Khmer: ព្រះបរមរាជវាំងចតុមុខសិរីមង្គល).The Cambodian monarchs have occupied it since it was built in the 1866s, with a period of absence when the country came into turmoil during and after the reign of the Khmer Rouge. The palace was constructed between 1866 and 1870, after King N…
wikipedia/Royal_Palace_of_Cambodia
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Beng Mealea
Beng Mealea
Phumĭ Bœ̆ng Méaléa
Beng Mealea (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបឹងមាលា, Khmer: [ɓəŋ miəliə], "Temple of Lotus Pond"), or Boeng Mealea, is a temple from the Angkor Wat period located east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia, on the ancient royal highway to Preah Khan Kompong Svay. The temple Beng Mealea was built as a Hindu temple, but some carvings depict Buddhist motifs. Its primary material is sandstone and it is largely unrestored, with trees and thick brush thriving amidst its towers and courtyards and many of i…
wikipedia/Beng_Mealea
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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Tuol Sleng Genocide Muse…
Phnom Penh
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (Khmer: សារមន្ទីរឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍ទួលស្លែង) or simply Tuol Sleng (Khmer: ទួលស្លែង, Khmer: [tuəl slaeŋ]; lit. "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill") is a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 (S-21; Khmer: មន្ទីរស-២១) by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at T…
wikipedia/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum
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The Ream National Park (Khmer: ឧទ្យានជាតិរាម), officially the Preah Sihanouk Ream National Park (Khmer: ឧទ្យានជាតិព្រះសីហនុរាម), is a national park of Cambodia located from the city of Sihanoukville in the Sihanoukville Municipality of the Sihanoukville Province in southwestern Cambodia. It was established in 1993, as the Cambodian government began to take action for the protection of the country's threatened natural resources. The national park's biological value is defined by its combination …
wikipedia/Ream_National_Park
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Preah Vihear Temple
Preah Vihear Temple
Phumĭ Rœssei
Preah Vihear Temple (Khmer: ប្រាសាទព្រះវិហារ Prasat Preah Vihear) is an ancient Khmer temple built during the period of the Khmer Empire, that is situated on the top of a cliff in the Dângrêk Mountains, in the Preah Vihear province, Cambodia. In 1962, following a lengthy dispute between Cambodia and Thailand over ownership, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled that the temple is in Cambodia. Affording a view for many kilometers across a plain, Prasat Preah Vihear has the …
wikipedia/Preah_Vihear_Temple
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Phnom Bakheng
Phnom Bakheng
Phumĭ Véal
Phnom Bakheng (Khmer: ភ្នំបាខែង Khmer: [pʰnom baːkʰaeŋ]) is a Hindu and Buddhist temple in the form of a temple mountain in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. Dedicated to Shiva, it was built at the end of the 9th century, during the reign of King Yasovarman (889–910). Located atop a hill, it is nowadays a popular tourist spot for sunset views of the much bigger temple Angkor Wat, which lies amid the jungle about 1.5 km to the southeast. The large number of visitors makes Phnom Bakheng one of the mos…
wikipedia/Phnom_Bakheng
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Srah Srang(皇家浴池) Sunrise
Srah Srang(皇家浴池) Sunrise
Banteay Kdei (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបន្ទាយក្តី; Prasat Banteay Kdei), meaning "A Citadel of Chambers", also known as "Citadel of Monks' cells", is a Buddhist temple in Angkor, Cambodia. It is located southeast of Ta Prohm and east of Angkor Thom. Built in the mid-12th to early 13th centuries AD during the reign of Jayavarman VII (who was posthumously given the title "Maha paramasangata pada"), it is in the Bayon architectural style, similar in plan to Ta Prohm and Preah Khan, but less complex and smalle…
wikipedia/Banteay_Kdei
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Killing Fields
Killing Fields
Phumĭ Rôluŏs (2)
The Killing Fields (Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than one million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings were part of a broad state-sponsored genocide (the Cambodian genocide). Analysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program a…
wikipedia/Killing_Fields
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Kbal Spean
Kbal Spean
Phumĭ Réam Chéa
Kbal Spean (Khmer: ក្បាលស្ពាន, Khmer: [kɓaːl spiən]; ) is an Angkorian-era archaeological site on the southwest slopes of the Kulen Hills to the northeast of Angkor in Banteay Srei District, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. It is situated along a 150m stretch of the Stung Kbal Spean River, from the main Angkor group of monuments, which lie downstream. The site consists of a series of stone rock relief carvings in sandstone formations of the river bed and banks. It is commonly known as the "Valley…
wikipedia/Kbal_Spean
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Bakong
Bakong
Phumĭ Lôlum
Bakong (Khmer: បាគង Khmer: [ɓaːkɔːŋ]) is the first Khmer temple mountain of sandstone constructed by rulers of the Khmer Empire at Angkor near modern Siem Reap in Cambodia. In the final decades of the 9th century AD, it served as the official state temple of King Indravarman I in the ancient city of Hariharalaya, located in an area that today is called Roluos. The structure of Bakong took shape of stepped pyramid, popularly identified as temple mountain of early Khmer temple architecture. The s…
wikipedia/Bakong
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Phnom Kulen (or Kulen Mountain; Khmer: ភ្នំគូលែន, Khmer: [pʰnom kuːlɛːn]; ) is a mountain range and a part of Phnom Kulen National Park in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. Geography Rather than a hill range, Phnom Kulen is an isolated chain of small mountain plateaux of moderate height lying south of the Dângrêk Mountains. The range stretches for about in a WNW–ESE direction and is located some north of Siem Reap. Its highest point is and its height is quite regular, averaging all along the ra…
wikipedia/Phnom_Kulen
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Ta Som
Ta Som
Phumĭ Srăh Sráng
Ta Som (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាសោម) is a small temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built at the end of the 12th century for King Jayavarman VII. It is located north east of Angkor Thom and just east of Neak Pean. The King dedicated the temple to his father Dharanindravarman II (Paramanishkalapada) who was King of the Khmer Empire from 1150 to 1160. The temple consists of a single shrine located on one level and surrounded by enclosure laterite walls. Like the nearby Preah Khan and Ta Prohm the temple was left …
wikipedia/Ta_Som
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Chau Say Tevoda
Chau Say Tevoda
Ta Keo (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាកែវ, Khmer: [praːsaːt taːkaew]) is a temple-mountain in Angkor (Cambodia), possibly the first to be built entirely of sandstone by the Khmer Empire. The site Ta Keo was the state temple of Jayavarman V, son of Rajendravarman, who had built Pre Rup. Like Pre Rup, it has five sanctuary towers arranged in a quincunx, built on the uppermost level of five-tier pyramid consisting of overlapping terraces (a step pyramid), surrounded by moats, as a symbolic depiction of Mount M…
wikipedia/Ta_Keo
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Preah Ko
Preah Ko
Phumĭ Lôlum
Preah Ko (Khmer: ប្រាសាទព្រះគោ, "The Sacred Bull") was the first temple to be built in the ancient and now defunct city of Hariharalaya (in the area that today is called Roluos), some 15 kilometers south-east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia. The temple was built under the Khmer King Indravarman I in 879 to honor members of the king's family, whom it places in relation with the Hindu deity Shiva. Etymology Preah Ko (Sacred Bull) derives its name from the three statues of sandsto…
wikipedia/Preah_Ko
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Tonlé Sap
Tonlé Sap
Phumĭ Phăt Sândaông (1)
Tonlé Sap (English: /ˈtɒnl_sæp/; Khmer: ទន្លេសាប, Khmer: [tɔnleː saːp]; or commonly translated as 'Great Lake'; Vietnamese: Biển Hồ, chữ Hán: 湖海/壺海) is a lake in the northwest of Cambodia. It belongs to the Mekong River system. It is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia and one of the most diverse and productive ecosystems in the world, designated as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1997 due to its high biodiversity. Entering the 21st century, the lake and its surrounding ecosystems a…
wikipedia/Tonlé_Sap
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Baphuon
Baphuon
Phumĭ Ângkôr Krau
The Baphuon (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបាពួន) is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia. It is located in Angkor Thom, northwest of the Bayon. Also called "golden mountain" (svarnādrī), the Baphuon is built on an artificial hill. The temple was originally dedicated to Shiva and late converted to a Theravada Buddhist temple. The dating of the temple has been fractious; recent work has shown that it was not built during the reign of Udayādityavarman II, as is popularly reported. In 2015 a French team directly dates fou…
wikipedia/Baphuon
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Pre Rup
Pre Rup
Phumĭ Trâpeăng Thlôk
Pre Rup (English: /ˈprɛ_rp/; Khmer: ប្រែរូប, Khmer: [prae.ruːp]) is a Hindu temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built as the state temple of Khmer king Rajendravarman and dedicated in 961 or early 962. It is a temple mountain of combined brick, laterite and sandstone construction. The temple's name is a comparatively modern one meaning "turn the body". This reflects the common belief among Cambodians that funerals were conducted at the temple, with the ashes of the body being ritually rotated in diffe…
wikipedia/Pre_Rup
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Wat Phnom 1 2017 full_DS…
The Central Market (Khmer: ផ្សារធំថ្មី, ; meaning "New Grand Market") is a market and an art deco landmark in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The bright yellow building completed in 1937 has a 26-metre high central dome, with four tall arch-roofed arms branching out diagonally across the block, creating vast hallways housing countless stalls and a variety of goods. Initially designed by city architect Jean Desbois, construction works were supervised by French architect Louis Chauchon. When …
wikipedia/Central_Market_(Phnom_Penh)
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Phnom Penh International Airport (Khmer: អាកាសយានដ្ឋានអន្តរជាតិភ្នំពេញ; French: Aéroport international de Phnom Penh) is the busiest and largest airport in Cambodia, occupying a land area of 386.5 hectares. It is located in the Pou Senchey District, west of Phnom Penh, the nation's capital. History Phnom Penh airport's former name was Pochentong International Airport (Khmer: អាកាសយានដ្ឋានអន្តរជាតិពោធិ៍ចិនតុង). The name of Pochentong International Airport was derived from the leader of the Kuom…
wikipedia/Phnom_Penh_International_Airport
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Bayon
Bayon
Phumĭ Koŭk Dong (2)
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