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The temple was built at the top of Poy Tadi, a steep cliff in the Dângrêk Mountain range that is the natural border between Cambodia and Thailand. The site is listed by Cambodia as being in Svay Chrum village, Kan Tout commune, in Choam Khsant District of Preah Vihear Province.
The Preah Vihear Temple is in this district. According to the 1998 census, it had a population of 16,073, [ 1 ] and in 2008 had an estimated population of 25, 245 people. [ 2 ]
The Cambodian–Thai border dispute began in June 2008 as part of a century-long dispute between Cambodia and the Thailand involving the area surrounding the 11th-century Preah Vihear Temple, in the Dângrêk Mountains between Choam Khsant District, Preah Vihear Province of northern Cambodia and the Kantharalak District, Sisaket Province of northeastern Thailand.
The International Court of Justice awarded the temple ruins to Cambodia in 1962, [3] but these are located in an area of 4.6 km² that Thailand still claims. [4] Nevertheless, in 2008 the World Heritage Committee's 32nd Session listed the Temple of Preah Vihear as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, [5] which prompted an armed dispute.
Preah Vihear Temple, temple and namesake of the province Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Preah Vihear .
The Dângrêk Mountains and the Cambodia/Thailand border are in the north of Preah Vihear province. Preah Vihear is one of the nine provinces that are part of the Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve. [3] On 15 April 2016, Preah Vihear recorded a temperature of 42.6 °C (108.7 °F), which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Cambodia ...
The disputed Preah Vihear temple The border crossing at Poipet. The boundary area has historically switched back and forth between various Khmer and Thai empires. [2] From the 1860s France began establishing a presence in the region, initially in modern Cambodia and Vietnam, and later Laos, with the colony of French Indochina being created in 1887.
On 6 February, the Cambodian government claimed that the temple had been damaged. Cambodia's military commander said: "A wing of our Preah Vihear temple has collapsed as a direct result of the Thai artillery bombardment". [15] However, Thai sources spoke only of minor damage, claiming that Cambodian soldiers had fired from within the temple. [16]