Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia. 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. 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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The Cambodian campaign (also known as the Cambodian incursion and the Cambodian liberation) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in mid-1970 by South Vietnam and the United States as an expansion of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. Thirteen operations were conducted by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) between April 29 and July 22 and by U.S. forces between May 1 and June 30, 1970.
The objective of the campaign was the defeat of the approximately 40,000 troops of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC) in the eastern border regions of Cambodia. Cambodian neutrality and military weakness made its territory a safe zone where PAVN/VC forces could establish bases for operations across the border. With the US shifting toward a policy of Vietnamization and withdrawal, it sought to shore up the South Vietnamese government by eliminating the cross-border threat. (Full article...)
The following are images from various Cambodia-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1Coronation of Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 2A fishing hut on the Tonle Sap (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 3Archers mounted on war elephants, stone relief at the Bayon (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 4Flag of Cambodia pre-1864 (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 5Rice fields in Takeo Province (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 6Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the Cardamom Mountains (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 7Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 8Map 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)
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Image 9Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 10Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 12Cambodian musical instruments (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 14Aromatic long-grain ( សែនក្រអូប, sên krâ-op) rice, one of the best paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 15A map of forests, vegetation and land use in Cambodia (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 16Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
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Image 17A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970))
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Image 18Moonlight pavilion in Phnom Penh (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 19Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 20Roman trade with India according to the Periplus Maris Erythraei, 1st century CE (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 22Mountain panorama view in Mondulkiri Province, north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 23An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 24Hun Sen was the longest-serving head of government in Cambodia's history. (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 25Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 26Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 27Archaeologists examine prehistoric cave paintings in Pursat province (from Early history of Cambodia)
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Image 281780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 34Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 36Longvek, the former capital of Cambodia (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 37Emblem of the Salvation Front at the former head office in Phnom Penh (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 38The volume of Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
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Image 39Topography of Cambodia (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 41Geographic map of Cambodia (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 42Bakong, one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 43Unauthorized sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 44A farm in Kampot province (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 46The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 47The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 49Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 50Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 51Traditional male clothing (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 52A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 53A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source: DANIDA (from Geography of Cambodia)
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Image 54Portrait statue of Jayavarman VII (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 55Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 56Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 57Cambodian Pidan (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 58Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 60The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from History of Cambodia)
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Image 61Traditional Khmer music performance (from Culture of Cambodia)
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Image 64Cambodian farmers planting rice (from Agriculture in Cambodia)
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Image 65Floating homes on the Mekong (from Geography of Cambodia)
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