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Many of these languages are also spoken in Vietnam. Vietnamese itself is also spoken in parts of Cambodia. [19] Non-Austroasiatic minority languages of Cambodia include Cham, Jarai, and Mekong Delta Malay (Austronesian) as well as Thai and Lao . Languages of education. English and French are used to different extents in education. [20] [21]
A Khmer village meeting. The Khmers are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the area, having filtered into Southeast Asia around the same time as the Mon.Most archaeologists and linguists, and other specialists like Sinologists and crop experts, believe they arrived no later than 2000 BCE (over four thousand years ago) bringing with them the practice of agriculture and in particular the ...
Cambodia is expected to be free of land mines by 2025 [228] but the social and economic legacy, including orphans and one in 290 people being an amputee, [229] is expected to affect Cambodia for years to come.
For instance, the 2018 CDB suggests that 1,474,489 people were living in Phnom Penh municipality, [1] whereas the 2019 census (which only preliminary results have been released for) suggests 2,129,371. [2] The figures listed in the table below are based on the most recently published Commune Database.
The Khmer people (Khmer: ... Prince, then again King), proclaimed Cambodia's independence in 1949 (granted in full in 1953) and ruled the country until March 18, ...
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Cambodia is divided into 25 provinces (Khmer: ខេត្ត, khétt).The capital Phnom Penh is not a province but an "autonomous municipality" (Khmer: រាជធានី, réachthéani [riəceaʔtʰiəniː]; lit. 'capital'), equivalent to a province governmentally and administered at the same level as the other 24 provinces.
A Vietnamese source stated that 156,000 people live in Cambodia, [2] while the actual number could be somewhere between 400,000 and one million people, according to independent scholars. [3] They mostly reside in southeastern parts of Cambodia bordering Vietnam or on houseboats in the Tonlé Sap lake and Mekong rivers.