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Geographic map of Cambodia Cambodia Kingdom of Cambodia , is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula , spanning an area of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles ), 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 most populous city is Phnom Penh .
In 802 AD,
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Front side of the main complex
Angkor Wat Khmer : អង្គរវត្ត , "City/Capital of Temples") is a Hindu-Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia . Located on a site measuring 162.6 hectares (1,626,000 m2 ; 402 acres) within the ancient Khmer capital city of Angkor , it is considered as the largest religious structure in the world by Guinness World Records Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Vishnu , it was gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple towards the end of the century.
Angkor Wat was built at the behest of the Khmer king
Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in
Yaśodharapura (present-day Angkor), the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the
temple-mountain and the later
galleried temple . It is designed to represent
Mount Meru , home of the
devas in
Hindu mythology and is surrounded by a
moat more than 5 km (3.1 mi). Enclosed within an outer wall 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi) long are three rectangular galleries, each raised above the next. At the centre of the temple stands a
quincunx of towers. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Angkor Wat is oriented to the west with scholars divided as to the significance of this. (
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Image 1 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 2 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 4 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 5 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 6 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 7 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 8 Archers mounted on elephants (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 9 Khmer pagoda in Prek Leap (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 10 Mekong tributary,
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Image 11 A fishing hut on the
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Image 12 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 13 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 14 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 15 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 16 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 17 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 18 Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 19 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 21 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 22 Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 23 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 24 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 26 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 27 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (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 30 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 32 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake
over the course of one year
Image 33 Rooms of the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 36 Khmer couple in wedding attires (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 37 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
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Image 38 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 40 Children practicing Bokator (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 41 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 42 Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 44 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 45 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 46 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 47 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 48 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 49 Map of South-east Asia c. 900 CE, showing the
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Image 50 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 51 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 54 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 55 Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 56 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 58 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 59 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 60 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 61 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 63 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 65 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 66 Roman trade with India according to the
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Image 67 Archaeologists examine prehistoric
cave paintings in
Pursat province (from
Early history of Cambodia )
Image 68 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 69 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 71 Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 73 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
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