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| OFFICIAL NAME |  |
Kingdom of Cambodia |
|---|---|---|
| GEOGRAPHY | A land of rice paddies and forests dominated by the Mekong River and Tonle Sap in Southeastern Asia; between Thailand, Vietnam and Laos; mostly low, flat plains, with mountains in southwest and north. | |
| AREA | 181,035 sq km / 69,898 sq miles | |
| COMPARATIVE | Slightly smaller than Oklahoma | |
| POPULATION | 16,778,424 | |
| CAPITAL | Phnom Penh | |
| LITERACY | 74% (age 15+ and can read and write) | |
| LANGUAGE |
Official: Khmer Other: French and English |
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| RELIGION |
Theravada Buddhist - 95% Other - 5% (Christian evangelical - 1.2%) |
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| POLITICS | Won independence from France in 1953; endured violent Pol Pot regime from 1975-79, then was occupied under the control of Vietnam during 1980s; multiparty democracy under constitutional monarchy established in September 1993. | |
| INCOME | Per capita income = US$ 320 per year | |
| CURRENCY | Riel (CR) | |
| TIME ZONE | GMT/UTC +7 | |
| SOURCES | Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News and Worldometers.info |
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