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Cambodia
[ kam-boh-dee-uh ]
noun
- a republic in Southeast Asia: formerly part of French Indochina. 69,866 sq. mi. (180,953 sq. km). : Phnom Penh.
Cambodia
/ kæmˈbəʊdɪə /
noun
- a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
Cambodia
- Nation in Southeast Asia ; bordered by Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, the Gulf of Siam to the south, and Thailand to the west and north. Phnom Penh is its capital and largest city.
Notes
Other Words From
- an·ti-Cam·bo·di·a adjective
- pro-Cam·bo·di·a adjective
Example Sentences
She filed a complaint and bought a one-way ticket to Cambodia.
Before the pandemic, members of the production team traveled to Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore to learn about their cultures.
With the wages she earned as a garment worker at Yi Da Manufacturer, a factory in Cambodia, Douk Sovann says she would normally spend about $10 a day on food.
The State Department’s Refugee Bureau had its beginnings under President Jimmy Carter, when Communist takeovers in Vietnam and Cambodia led to a humanitarian cataclysm, as millions streamed out of those countries into Thailand.
In 2010, the foundation—which regularly sends medical teams to Ghana, Cambodia, and Mongolia, among other countries—began asking its doctors to gather information about things like hospital access in the communities they visit.
Compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.
Strangio is at his best when exposing what appears to be a flourishing civil society in Cambodia.
Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.
Now Jennifer Adams and Fraser Mackay face a challenge: a two-week holiday in Cambodia and Vietnam.
The brutal Khmer Rouge regime has left physical and mental scars across Cambodia.
Pnom-Penh, the capital of Cambodia, stands on the west bank of the mighty Mekong, one hundred and seventy miles from the sea.
Meanwhile, in 1863, the “protection” of France was extended over the neighboring state of Cambodia.
In 1896 a treaty was made between these two powers, which fixed the Mekong or Cambodia River as their dividing line.
With him begins our real knowledge of the interior of Siam, and its partly dependent neighbors Laos and Cambodia.
The painter gets his gamboge, as its name implies, from Cambodia, which is tributary to their majesties of Bangkok.
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