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Cambodia , officially the 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, 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 fifteenth century, Cambodia experienced a decline of power , and in 1863, it became a protectorate of France . After a period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War, Cambodia gained independence in 1953. The Vietnam War extended into the country in 1965 via the Ho Chi Minh and Sihanouk trails . A 1970 coup installed the US-aligned Khmer Republic , which was overthrown by the Khmer Rouge in 1975. The Khmer Rouge ruled the country and carried out the Cambodian genocide from 1975 until 1979, when they were ousted in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War . The Vietnamese-occupied People's Republic of Kampuchea became the de facto government. 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 holding elections in which around 90% of the registered voters cast ballots. 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 Cambodia a de facto one-party state . (Full article... )
The 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat is the masterpiece of Angkorian architecture. Constructed under the direction of the Khmer king Suryavarman II , Angkor Wat is a Hindu -Buddhist temple.
Khmer architecture (Khmer : ស្ថាបត្យកម្មខ្មែរ ), also known as Angkorian architecture (Khmer : ស្ថាបត្យកម្មសម័យអង្គរ ), is the architecture produced by the Khmers during the Angkor period of the Khmer Empire from approximately the later half of the 8th century CE to the first half of the 15th century CE.
The
architecture of the Indian rock-cut temples , particularly in sculpture, had an influence on
Southeast Asia and was widely adopted into the
Indianised architecture of
Cambodian (Khmer),
Annamese and
Javanese temples (of the
Greater India ). Evolved from Indian influences, Khmer architecture became clearly distinct from that of the
Indian sub-continent as it developed its own special characteristics, some of which were created independently and others of which were incorporated from neighboring cultural traditions, resulting in a new artistic style in Asian architecture unique to the Angkorian tradition. The development of Khmer architecture as a distinct style is particularly evident in artistic depictions of divine and royal figures with facial features representative of the local Khmer population, including rounder faces, broader brows, and other physical characteristics. In any study of Angkorian architecture, the emphasis is necessarily on religious architecture, since all the remaining Angkorian buildings are religious in nature. During the period of Angkor, only temples and other religious buildings were constructed of stone. (
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The following are images from various Cambodia-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 3 A fishing hut on the
Tonle Sap (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 4 A polluted estuary near Ream commune in Sihanoukville province, Cambodia 2014 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 5 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife in Indonesia, 1964 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 7 Geographic map of Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 8 Pchum Ben , also known as "Ancestors' Day". (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 9 Aromatic long-grain (
សែនក្រអូប ,
sên krâ-op ) rice, one of the best
paddy rice varieties of Cambodia (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 10 A Buddhist celebration at a Buddhist temple. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 11 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 12 Win-Win Memorial , dedicated to the ending of the Cambodian Civil War in 1998 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 13 The territories of Eastern Wu (in green), 262 CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 14 Coronation of
Norodom Sihanouk in 1941 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 15 A map of forests, vegetation and
land use in Cambodia (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 16 Cambodian farmers planting rice (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 17 Khmer couple in wedding attires (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 19 Moonlight pavilion in
Phnom Penh (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 20 Water buffalos in the paddy fields (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 21 Archaeologists examine prehistoric
cave paintings in
Pursat province (from
Early history of Cambodia )
Image 22 Amok Trey , Cambodia’s national dish (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 24 Jacqueline Kennedy, Sisowath Kossamak, and Norodom Sihanouk in 1967. (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 25 Map of Funan at around the 3rd century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 26 Emblem of the
Salvation Front at the former head office in
Phnom Penh (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 27 An aerial view of bomb craters in Cambodia (2014) (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 28 Roman trade with India according to the
Periplus Maris Erythraei , 1st century CE (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 30 Collection of Khmer silk cloths (sompot phamuong) (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 31 Southern Annamites montane rain forests: ecoregion territory (in purple) (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 32 A farm in Kampot province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 33 Portrait statue of
Jayavarman VII (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 34 Archers mounted on elephants (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 37 Rooms of the
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 39 A map of rainfall regimes in Cambodia, source:
DANIDA (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 40 Khmer pagoda in Prek Leap (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 41 Rice fields in Takeo Province (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 42 The volume of
Tonle Sap Lake over the course of one year
Image 43 Khmer musical instruments and theatre masks (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 44 The tale of Vorvong & Sorvong illustration, a Khmer 19th century drawing. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 46 Nang Sbek Thom figure plate. (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 47 1780 map of Cambodia and Southeast Asia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 48 Norodom Sihanouk and his wife with
Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena Ceauşescu, 1974 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 49 Cambodian
Pidan (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 50 Unauthorized
sand mining at the Tatai River in the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, Cambodia 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 51 Longvek , the former capital of Cambodia (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 52 Cambodian musical instruments (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 53 Worldwide zones of Tropical savanna climate (Aw). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 54 Choeung Ek Monument contains more than 5,000 human skulls. (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 55 Tatai River, draining the southern slopes of the
Cardamom Mountains (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 57 Agricultural fields in the Kampong Cham province, aerial (from
Agriculture in Cambodia )
Image 60 Flag of
Cambodia pre-1864 (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 62 The mainland of Southeast Asia at the end of the 13th century (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 63 Traditional Khmer music performance (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 64 Children practicing Bokator (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 65 Floating homes on the Mekong (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 67 Worldwide zones of tropical monsoon climate (Am). (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 68 Khmer couple in traditional clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 69 A welcoming ceremony for Sihanouk in China, 1956 (from
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) )
Image 70 Traditional male clothing (from
Culture of Cambodia )
Image 71 Mountain panorama view in
Mondulkiri Province , north-eastern Cambodia, November 2012 (from
Geography of Cambodia )
Image 72 Bakong , one of the earliest temple mountain in Khmer architecture (from
History of Cambodia )
Image 73 Topography of Cambodia
(from
Geography of Cambodia )
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