Cambodia (The Kingdom of Angkor)


The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia which well known with its famous mother temple of the world "The Mighty Angkor Wat" in Siem Reap province. Phnom Penh being the capital city. Cambodia is the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese Peninsula between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries.

A citizen of Cambodia is usually identified as "Cambodian" or "Khmer", which strictly refers to ethnic Khmers. Most Cambodians are Theravada Buddhists of Khmer extraction, but the country also has a substantial number of predominantly Muslim Cham, as well as ethnic Chinese, Vietnamese and small animist hill tribes.

The country shares a border with Thailand to its west and northwest, with Laos to its northeast, and with Vietnam to its east and southeast. In the south it faces the Gulf of Thailand. The geography of Cambodia is dominated by the longest river in South East Asia Mekong river and the largest fresh water lake of Tonlé Sap, an important source of fish.