Cambodia—Profile
(2001 est. 11.4 million). Cambodia occupies 181,040 square kilometers of peninsular Southeast Asia. Modern Cambodia is bordered by Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and the Gulf of Thai...
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Cambodia—Economic System
The nature of Cambodia's economic system reflects the deep complexity of Cambodian society. On one hand, it has witnessed great changes, having ebbed and flowed ...
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Cambodia—Education System
Cambodia's education system holds a very important place in the country's plans for integrating itself into the regional and international economies and ...
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Cambodia—History
The origins of the earliest inhabitants of Cambodia are unknown. Scholars are uncertain whether they came from China, India, or insular Southeast Asia. Sources indicate that as...
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Cambodia—Political System
Cambodia's political system is a product both of the country's troubled and oftentimes turbulent modern history and of factors rooted deeply in its premo...
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Cambodia-Laos Relations
As neighboring nations, Laos and Cambodia have passed through many difficult phases in their relations. Territorial acquisition in the historical period, a shared 535-kilometer...
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Clothing, Traditional—Cambodia
The intricately patterned ikat silks (silks that whose threads are tie-dyed before being woven) created by the Khmer and Cham ethnic groups may come to mind when ...
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Cambodia
Kingdom of Cambodia
Preahreacheanachakr Kampuchea
CAPITAL: Phnom Penh
FLAG: The flag has a red center field with a white silhouette of the temple complex at Angkor Wat. The center field is bo...
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Cambodia
Cambodia covers 181,000 square kilometers (69,866 square miles) of the south central region of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula. It is shaped like a shallow cooking pan with plateaus and mountain r...
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Cambodia
POPULATION 12,775,324THERAVADA BUDDHIST 89 percentMAHAYANA BUDDHIST 5 percentMUSLIM 3 percentOTHER 3 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Kingdom of Cambodia lies on the northeaster...
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Area: 181,035 sq km (69,898 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 13,648,000Capital:
Phnom Penh
Chief of state: King Norodom
Sihamoni
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Hun
Sen
During 2006 the institu...
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The Cambodian government said Wednesday that Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe's resignation will not hurt good relations between
Cambodia and Japan.
''The relationship between Cambodia and Japan ...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - Cambodia launched a new heliport and helicopter
airline on the Vietnam border, officials said Thursday.
Svay Rieng province transport official, Sa...
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PHNOM PENH, Oct 25 (Reuters) - China is giving Cambodia
nine naval patrol boats to safeguard oil installations in the
Gulf of Thailand, another sign of Beijing's deepening ties with
the Southeast ...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - For Cambodia, struggling to regain its economic
footing after 30 years of civil war and keen to shrug off its
dependence on aid, Chinese investment has be...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - Cambodia officially opened its 24 million-
dollar new National Assembly Saturday in a lavish traditional
Buddhist ceremony presided over by King Norodom S...
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After decades of war and upheaval, Cambodia is experiencing a
real estate boom fueled by South Korean investment.
Sung Bonna, president of Bonna Realty Group, the country's
leading real es...
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