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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...
Mam Sonando Khmer : ម៉ម សូណង់ដូ ; born 13 February 1942) is a Cambodian radio journalist and politician with French dual citizenship . He is the owner and director of Phnom Penh 's Beehive Radio , which the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) described in 2012 as "one of Cambodia's few independent news outlets". He also acts as a political commentator for the station.
Sonando has been imprisoned three times on charges related to his reporting: a 2003 arrest for "inciting riots", a 2005 arrest for defamation, and a 2012 arrest for insurrection. His twenty-year prison sentence for the latter was protested by human rights groups, and US President
Barack Obama expressed concerns about the case in a meeting with Prime Minister
Hun Sen . The sentence was overturned by an appeals court in March 2013, and Sonando was instead given a five-year suspended sentence on charges of causing civil unrest. (
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Image 1 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 2 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 4 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 6 Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 7 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 8 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 9 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 10 Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 11 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 12 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 13 Archers mounted on elephants (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 14 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 15 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 16 Khmer couple in wedding attires (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 17 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 18 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 19 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 20 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 21 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 22 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 24 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 27 Khmer pagoda in Prek Leap (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 28 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 29 Win-Win Memorial , dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 31 Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 32 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 34 Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 35 Aromatic long-grain (
សែនក្រអូប ,
sên krâ-op ) rice, one of the best
paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 36 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 37 A fishing hut on the
Tonle Sap (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 38 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 40 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 41 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 42 Children practicing Bokator (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 43 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 44 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 45 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 47 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 48 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 49 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 50 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 51 Amok Trey , Cambodia’s national dish (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 53 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 54 Archaeologists examine prehistoric
cave paintings in
Pursat province (from
Early history of Cambodia )
Image 56 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 57 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 58 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 59 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 61 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 62 Roman trade with India according to the
Periplus Maris Erythraei , 1st century CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 63 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 64 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 65 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 66 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 68 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 71 Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 74 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 75 Rooms 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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