Everything you need to know about Cambodia
Explore Cambodia from Angkor and Tonle Sap to Phnom Penh, the Gulf coast and the northeastern uplands. Learn twenty-four provinces and the separate capital, place twenty cities and sixteen heritage and landscape sights, follow five waters, discover ten illustrated topics with thirty answered questions, and begin Khmer.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Cambodia
A monsoon floodplain between three neighbours, the Gulf coast and forested uplands.
Know the shape of the country
Start with twenty-four provinces and separate Phnom Penh, then place twenty cities and towns and distinguish the Mekong, Tonle Sap River, Tonle Sap Lake, Sekong and Srepok. Zoom in around Kep, Pailin and the capital. Boundaries: geoBoundaries / ยฉ OpenStreetMap contributors, Wambacher, ODbL 1.0, 2017 reference, including Tbong Khmum. Waters: Natural Earth 5.1.2. The lake outline is a reference shape, not a current shoreline or seasonal flood boundary.
Heritage and landscapes
Essential ยท Temple
Angkor Wat
Suryavarman II commissioned this twelfth-century temple, initially dedicated to Vishnu. It is part of the wider Angkor World Heritage property, not a separate inscription.
Locate sixteen places across Angkor, the northern temple landscapes, Phnom Penh and the northeast. All five World Heritage properties are represented, including the three distinct Cambodian Memorial Sites components. Essential and Worth a detour are learning priorities. Memorials require respectful remembrance. Pins locate places rather than confirmed entrances or open routes. Current border restrictions affect Preah Vihear and other northern areas; consult official advice before travel. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Khmer with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Cambodia, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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