Welcome to Cambodia!!!: Cambodia

Cambodia

Previously, The Kingdom of Cambodia known as Kampuchea.

Cambodia located Southeast Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Its total area of 181 035 square Kilometers in the heart of East Asia and it’s affected by tropics where is the points are only slightly more than 10^o above the equator. There are 24 provinces, and divided 4 areas of total land, those are plain area, Mountain area, Beach area (K4 areas), and Tole Sap area (Angkor Wat. Two dominant features are the Tole Sap Lake and The Mekong River, which flow from north to south. Mekong River is the longest one.

Cambodia is Potential tourism destination in the 21 centuries, which are History-Cultural and Natural Tourism sites, consists many places where to visit. Now day, the country has been developing on man-mad sites, not only cultural and natural tourism sites. Because the developing on tourism sector that contribute to the economy, people, and cute dow poverty, so there are communities based Eco-tourism that support by NGO, Government Organization.

Climate

Like most of Southeast Asia, Cambodia’s climate is hot and warm almost year round. The climate is affected by monsoon cycle of rainy and dry season. That the rainy season start from May to October, and from November to April is dry season. In additional, from December to January is the cool time. The average temperature is 25 to 28 C^o.

Population

The total population might over 14 million peoples. Ninety percent resident are Khmer, and beside this are the minority as well as Vietnamese, Cham (Khmer Muslim), Chinese, Indian, Phnorng, Kouy, Stieng, Thai, Tompoun, Krueng, Tamil, etc. the population desity is 78/km².