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Cambodia (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 00 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 13.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 105 00 00 E degrees minutes Long: 105.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Area was home to Neolithic culture by 2nd millennium BCE; Hindu-Buddhist influence 1st century; home of Khmer kingdom 5th-13th century; province of Annam and Siam; border disputes with Siam (Thailand) 19th-20th century; border areas saw fighting in Vietnam War from 1961; official language is Khmer, but French is also widely spoken.
Names:
Kampuchea (preferred C ,V ,Khmer (transliterated)-P ,U ,N )កម្ពុជា (C ,V ,Khmer-P ,U )Preah Reacheanachak Kampuchea (C ,V ,O ,Khmer (transliterated) ,U ,N )ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា (C ,V ,O ,Khmer ,U )Cambodia (C ,V ,English-P ,U ,N )Cambodia Tagalog )Cambodia Ilocano )Cambodia Latin )Cambodia Welsh )Cambodia Galician )Cambodia North Ndebele )Cambodia Pampanga )Kingdom of Cambodia (C ,O ,English )Cambodge (C ,O ,French-P ,U ,N )Royaume du Cambodge (C ,O ,French ,U ,N )Cambodja (C ,O ,Nauruan )Cambodja Danish )Cambodja Catalan )Cambodja Dutch )Cambodja Limburgan )Camboja (C ,O ,Portuguese )Camboya (C ,O ,Spanish-P ,U ,N )Reino de Camboya (C ,O ,Spanish ,U )Kambodscha (C ,O ,German )Kambodscha Low German )Preăhréachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa (C ,V ,Khmer (transliterated) ,U )ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រ កម្ពុជា (C ,V ,Khmer ,U )Камбоджа (C ,V ,Bulgarian )Камбоджа Russian-P ,U )Камбоджа Ukrainian )Камбоджа Belarusian )Королевство Камбоджа (C ,V ,Russian ,U )柬埔寨 (C ,V ,Chinese-P ,U )柬埔寨王国 (C ,V ,Chinese ,U )كمبوديا (C ,V ,Arabic-P ,U )مم ىَة كمبوديا (C ,V ,Arabic ,U )KHM (C ,O ,ISO3L )KH (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO116 (C ,O ,ISO3N )CB (C ,O ,FIPS )Cambodian (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )קמבודיה (C ,U ,Hebrew )חמר (C ,U ,Hebrew )An Chambóid (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Cambodg·e (C ,U ,Arpitan )Cambodgia (C ,U ,Romanian )Cambodgia Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Cambodscha (C ,U ,Romansh )Camboggia (C ,U ,Sicilian )Cambogia (C ,U ,Italian )Cambòja (C ,U ,Occitan )Cam Bot (C ,U )Cambòtja (C ,U ,Occitan )Cambotja (C ,U )Camboxa - កម្ពុជា (C ,U ,Galician )Campuchia (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Campuchia Aragonese )Cam-pu-chia (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Democratic Cambodia (C ,U ,English )i-Cambodia (C ,U ,Zulu )Kamapōtia (C ,U ,Maori )Kambocän (C ,U ,Volapük )Kamboçiýa (C ,U ,Turkmen )Kamboçya (C ,U ,Turkish )Kambódía (C ,U ,Icelandic )Kambodia (C ,U ,Akan )Kambodia Greenlandic )Kambodia Kikuyu )Kambodia Shona )Kambodia Swahili (generic) )KambodĪa (C ,U ,Estonian )Kambodia nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Kambodiya (C ,U ,Azerbaijani )Kambodiya Hausa )Kambodja (C ,U ,Maltese )Kambodja Swedish )Kambodja Breton )Kambodja Afrikaans )Kambodja Faroese )Kambodja Western Frisian )Kambodja Ido )Kambôdja (C ,U ,Malagasy )Kambodsja (C ,U ,Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Kambodsja Norwegian (Bokmål) )Kambodsja Norwegian )Kambodso (C ,U ,Fulah )Kambodya (C ,U ,Ganda (Ugandan language) )Kambodža (C ,U ,Croatian )Kambodža Bosnian )Kambodža Latvian )Kambodža Finnish )Kambodža Slovak )Kambodža Slovene )Kambodža Czech )Kambodža Lithuanian )Kambodža Estonian )Kambodža Northern Sami )Kambodźa (C ,U ,Upper Sorbian )Kambodza (C ,U ,Lingala )Kambodza Finnish )Kambodza Luba-Katanga )Kambodża (C ,U ,Polish )Kambodzsa (C ,U ,Magyar (Hungarian) )Kamboĝo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Kamboja (C ,U ,Indonesian )Kamboja Swahili (generic) )Kamboje (C ,U ,Rundi )Kamboji (C ,U ,Bambara )Kamboji Cornish )Kamboodiya (C ,U ,Somali )Kamboxhi (C ,U ,Albanian )Kamboxhia (C ,U ,Albanian )Kämbôzi (C ,U ,Sangho )Kambuja (C ,U )Kambuya (C ,U ,Quechuan )Kampučea (C ,U ,Northern Sami )Kampuchea Démocratique (C ,U ,French )Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéathĭpâtéyy (C ,U )Kanbodia (C ,U ,Basque )Kanbòdj (C ,U ,Haitian (Haitian Creole) )Kembodja (C ,U ,Kurdish )Kemboja (C ,U ,Malay (macrolanguage) )Kemipōtia (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )Le Cambodge (C ,U )Orílẹ́ède Kàmùbódíà (C ,U ,Yoruba )Preah Reach Ana Chak Kampuchea (C ,U )République du Cambodge (C ,U ,French )République Khmère (C ,U ,French )ཀམ་བོ་ཌི་ཡ (C ,U ,Dzongkha )Камбоџа (C ,U ,Serbian )Камбоџа Macedonian )カンボジア (C ,U ,Japanese )Կամբոջա (C ,U ,Armenian )Καμπότζη (C ,U ,Greek )കംബോഡിയ (C ,U ,Malayalam )కంబోడియా (C ,U ,Telugu )கம்போடியா (C ,U ,Tamil )کمبودیا (C ,U ,Pashto )کمبودیا Persian-Farsi )कम्बूजा (C ,U ,Hindi )ཅིའན་ཕུ་ཀྲེ (C ,U ,Tibetan )کمبوډيا (C ,U ,Pashto )কম্বোডিয়া (C ,U ,Bengali )ประเทศกัมพูชา (C ,U ,Thai )กัมพูชา (C ,U ,Thai )کامبوج (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )কাম্বোজ (C ,U ,Bengali )ກຳປູເຈຍ (C ,U ,Lao )캄보디아 (C ,U ,Korean )कम्बोडिया (C ,U ,Hindi )कम्बोडिया Nepali )كامبودژا (C ,U ,Uyghur )კამბოჯა (C ,U ,Georgian )ካምቦዲያ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ካምቦዲያ Amharic )कंबोडिया (C ,U ,Marathi )कंबोडिया Hindi )Камбоҷа (C ,U ,Tajik )ক্যাম্বোডিয়া (C ,U ,Bengali )କାମ୍ବୋଡିଆ (C ,U ,Odia )کەمبۆدیا (C ,U ,Kurdish )ကမ္ဘောဒီးယား (C ,U ,Burmese )カンボジア国 (C ,U ,Japanese )ಕಾಂಬೋಡಿಯಾ (C ,U ,Kannada )کمبوڈیا (C ,U ,Urdu )ཀམ་བོ་ཌི་ཡ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )કંબોડિયા (C ,U ,Gujarati )Democratic Kampuchea (H ,O ,English ) ............ 1976-1982 Kampuchea, Democratic (H ,O ) ............ 1976-1982 Kampuchea démocratique (H ,O ) ............ 1976-1982 Kâmpŭchea Prĉheathipâtéyy (H ,V )Khmer (H ,V ,English )Khmer Republic (H ,O ,English ) ............ 1970-1975 People's Democratic Republic of Kampuchea (H ,O )People's Republic of Kampuchea (H ,O ) ............ 1979-1989 République démocratique populaire du Kampuchea (H ,O )Roat Kampuchea (H ,V ) ............ 1989-1993 Sathearanakrath Pracheachon Kampuchea (H ,V ) ............ 1979-1989 State of Cambodia (H ,O ) ............ 1989-1993 State of Kampuchea (H ,O ) ............ 1989-1993
Hierarchical Position:
.... Asia (continent) (P )
Additional Parents:
.... Asia (continent) (P )
.... Asia (continent) (P )
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ gained independence in 1954
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
kingdom (C )
republic (H ) ............ established by military overthrow in 1970
protectorate (H ) ............ French, 1863-1954
vassal state (H ) ............ of Siam, from 1844
former nation/state/empire (C )
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Phnom Penh .................. (World, Asia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh) [7004076]
historical connection .... Khmer ........................................ (World, Asia) [8711777]
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1955
Sources and Contributors:
Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéathĭpâtéyy.......... [VP ] ............................................... GeoNames online [n.d.] 1831722
Preah Reach Ana Chak Kampuchea.......... [VP ] ..................................................... GeoNames online [n.d.] 1831722
République démocratique populaire du Kampuchea.......... [VP ] ............................................................................. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 707 ff.
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