Lao -beautiful country

+Northeast: Laos
+ North and WEST : THAILAND
+ EAst: vietnam
+ south: gulf of thailand
+ CAPItal:
phnom penh
+AREA: 181.035 km2
+ COASTLINE: 443 km
+75% area: tonle sap basin and mekong lowland
+ Cardamom & DANGREK mountains
+AREA: 181.035 km2
+ COASTLINE: 443 km
+TONLE SAP: LACUSTRINE plain (Formed by inundation)
+ Dry Season: 2590 km2
+ WET Season: 24605 km2
+Tropical wet & dry
+ march  may:
Hot & dry
+ june  august:
Hot & wet
+ september  early november: Cool & wet
+ november  february : Cool & dry
+ Population: 14,805,000
+ Density: 81.8/km2
+ region: 95% buddhist
+ language: khmer
+ 95%: rural population
+ Angkorian polities
The Khmer Empire flourished from the 9th to the 15th century
+ dark ages of cambodia
Angkor was sacked by the Thai and abandoned in 1432.
- From 15th to the 19th , Cambodia in wars with Thai and Vietnamese.
Established new capital Phnom Penh.
+ modernity and french indochina
Cambodia was as a protectorate of France from 1863 to 1953.
Cambodia gained independence from France on November 9th,1953
In 1975, The Khmer Rouge took power.
- They attempted to rebuild the country’ agriculture as a model of 11th century.
- From 1 to 3 millions of people were died from executions, overwork, starvation and disease.
- In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia to stop incursions across border and genocide in Cambodia.
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
+ Government: Parliamentary democracy, Constitutional monarchy
Prime Minister: Hun Sen
King: Norodom Shihamoni
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Capital of KHMER empire from 9th to 15th century
It is the largest fresh water in South East Asia
Cambodia gained indepence from this country.
Type of climate in Cambodia
The Capital of Cambodia at the moment.
A kind of fruit considered as an emblem of Cambodia