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Banlung
Banlung ( km, បានលុង, ) is the capital of Ratanakiri Province in northeastern Cambodia, and is 636 kilometres from the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Ratanakiri Province borders Vietnam and Laos.Ray, Nick. ''Cambodia''. Lonely Planet (2002)p315 . Banlung had been previously known as Banlung district before it officially gained town status. The town has a population of around 17,000 and the surrounding district has a population of 23,888. The town became the capital of Ratanakiri Province in 1979, following the fall of the Khmer Rouge. The capital was moved from Veun Sai to Banlung in order to facilitate trade with Vietnam (prior to Veun Sai, the capital was Lumphat). Prior to 1979, Banlung was known as Labansiek. It is a relatively lively commercial centre; people from surrounding villages often come to the town market to sell their goods. Three kilometres west of Banlung are the Katieng Waterfalls, where Ratnakiri's last elephants are covered by ...
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Banlung Market2
Banlung ( km, បានលុង, ) is the capital of Ratanakiri Province in northeastern Cambodia, and is 636 kilometres from the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Ratanakiri Province borders Vietnam and Laos.Ray, Nick. ''Cambodia''. Lonely Planet (2002)p315 . Banlung had been previously known as Banlung district before it officially gained town status. The town has a population of around 17,000 and the surrounding district has a population of 23,888. The town became the capital of Ratanakiri Province in 1979, following the fall of the Khmer Rouge. The capital was moved from Veun Sai to Banlung in order to facilitate trade with Vietnam (prior to Veun Sai, the capital was Lumphat). Prior to 1979, Banlung was known as Labansiek. It is a relatively lively commercial centre; people from surrounding villages often come to the town market to sell their goods. Three kilometres west of Banlung are the Katieng Waterfalls, where Ratnakiri's last elephants are covered by a ...
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O Chum 2 Hydropower Dam
O Chum 2 Hydropower Dam is located on O Chum River, in Banlung, Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia with an installed capacity , annually. Seasonal storage hydropower, head , height , length , active storage , catchment area However, in Ratanakiri, local people are apparently facing serious problem related to change of quality of water in the Se San river and it was reported that the quality of water has deteriorated greatly since 1996 (Fishery office & NTFP, 2000). Residents in Ratanakiri have a poor access to electricity. Only 3,529 households out of 27,396 total households in the province can access to electricity- a percentage access of 12.8%. Only residents in the 3 towns (Banlung, Lumphat, and Veun Sai) can have electricity. O Chum 2, commissioned in 1993, is a 1 MW mini-hydropower plant located in the north-east of Ratanakiri province. It is owned and operated by the Cambodian government and has an estimated annual generation output of between 2.2-2.5 GWh.Cambodia’s Hydropowe ...
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Yeak Laom
Yeak Laom ( km, យក្សឡោម) is a commune (''khum'') in the Banlung Municipality of the Ratanakiri Province in northeastern Cambodia. It has a population of 1,855. On May 2, 2008, the Ratanakiri provincial governor granted a , 90-year lease to BVB Investment to develop a tourist attraction site on Youl Mountain in the commune including parts of the indigenous Phnom, Sil, and Lapo villages. NGOs A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ... reported that much of the leased area may be eligible for registration as indigenous community land under the 2001 law. The affected indigenous communities were not involved in lease negotiations. Villages References Communes of Ratanakiri province {{cambodia-geo-stub ...
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Airavata Elephant Foundation
Airavata is a nonprofit organisation founded by Chenda Clais, Professor François-Xavier Roux and Pierre-Yves Clais, protecting the last captive Asian elephants in Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia, as well as protecting up to 100 hectares of the Katieng forest along the river close to the Katieng Waterfalls 10 Kilometer west from the Ratanakiri capitol, Banlung. Captive elephants in Cambodia Wars, and the time during which Cambodia was ruled by the Khmer Rouge reduced the population of Cambodias elephants, both in the wild as well as in captivity. Cambodia is presently home to less than 100 captive Asian elephants, most of them being cared for by private owners in Mondulkiri Province. Airavata elephants Presently, Airavata Foundation owns four elephants, two bulls; Bokva, Kamsen, the female Ikeo and her female baby Noelle, which are the last four captive elephants in the Ratanakiri Province. All three of the elephants are from the community forest in Ratanakiri. Airavatas ...
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List Of Cities And Towns In Cambodia
List of municipalities in Cambodia by population The figures listed in the table below come from the 2018 Commune Database (CDB) published by the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD). These data are recorded differently to Cambodian census data and significant variations are to be expected between the two due to internal and external migration. The national census does not record population by city, rather by province. The only available method of estimating the population of a city is through the CDB, which is updated every two years. For instance, the 2018 CDB suggests that 1,474,489 people were living in Phnom Penh municipality,Ministry of Planning (2018) 'Commune DatabaseAccessed 10 January 2020. whereas the 2019 census (which only preliminary results have been released for) suggests 2,129,371.Ministry of Planning (2019)'General Population Census of the Kingdom of Cambodia 2019: Provisional Population TotalsAccessed 10 January 2020. The figure ...
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Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. The capital and largest city is Phnom Penh. The sovereign state of Cambodia has a population of over 17 million. Buddhism is enshrined in the constitution as the official state religion, and is practised by more than 97% of the population. Cambodia's minority groups include Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams and 30 hill tribes. Cambodia has a tropical monsoon climate of two seasons, and the country is made up of a central floodplain around the Tonlé Sap lake and Mekong Delta, surrounded by mountainous regions. The capital and largest city is Phnom Penh, the political, economic and cultural centre of Cambodia. The kingdom is an elec ...
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List Of Districts In Cambodia
This is a list of Cambodia's 162 districts ( ''srok''), 27 district-level municipalities ( ''krong'') and 14 sections ( ''khan'') organized by each province and an autonomous municipality ( Phnom Penh). Each has a code in parentheses displaying the first two digits as the province and the last two representing that province. Banteay Meanchey # Mongkol Borei (01-02) # Phnom Srok (01-03) # Preah Netr Preah (01-04) # Ou Chrov (01-05) # Serei Saophoan municipality (01-06) # Thma Puok (01-07) # Svay Chek (01-08) # Malai (01-09) # Poipet municipality (01-10) Battambang # Banan (02-01) # Thma Koul (02-02) # Battambang municipality (02-03) # Bavel (02-04) # Ek Phnom (02-05) # Moung Ruessei (02-06) # Rotanak Mondol (02-07) # Sangkae (02-08) # Samlout (02-09) # Sampov Loun (02-10) # Phnum Proek (02-11) # Kamrieng (02-12) # Koas Krala (02-13) # Rukhak Kiri (02-14) Kampong Cham # Batheay (03-01) # Chamkar Leu (03-02) # Cheung Prey (03-03) # Kampong Cham municipa ...
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Provinces Of Cambodia
Cambodia is divided into 25 provinces ( km, ខេត្ត, ). The capital Phnom Penh is not a province but an "autonomous municipality" ( km, រាជធានី, link=no, ; lit. 'Capital'), equivalent to a province governmentally and administered at the same level as the other 24 provinces. Phnom Penh has both the highest population and the highest population density of all provinces, but is the second smallest in land area. The largest province by area is Mondulkiri and the smallest is Kep which is also the least populated province. Mondulkiri has the lowest population density. Each province is administered by a governor, who is nominated by the Ministry of Interior, subject to approval by the Prime Minister. Provinces are divided into districts ( ''srok''). The districts in Phnom Penh are called ''khan'' () normally written as for addresses in English followed by the districts’ names (Ex: Khan Chamkar Mon; lit. 'Chamkar Mon District'). The number of districts in ...
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Lumphat
Lumphat ( km, លំផាត់) is a district in Ratanakiri Province, north-east Cambodia. In 1998, it had a population of 10,301. Lomphat, the former capital of Ratanakiri, is located in the district on the Srepok River. The town is home to fewer than 800 people. The district gives its name to the Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary, a preservation area for the many unique species indigenous to Northeast Cambodia. Administration The district is subdivided into six communes (''khum''), which are further subdivided into 26 villages (''phum Administrative divisions of Cambodia have several levels. Cambodia is divided into 24 provinces (''Khaet''; km, ខេត្ត, ) and the special administrative unit Phnom Penh. Though a different administrative unit, Phnom Penh is at provi ...''). References Districts of Ratanakiri province {{cambodia-geo-stub ...
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Provincial Capitals In Cambodia
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Phum
Administrative divisions of Cambodia have several levels. Cambodia is divided into 24 provinces (''Khaet''; km, ខេត្ត, ) and the special administrative unit Phnom Penh. Though a different administrative unit, Phnom Penh is at province level, so ''de facto'' Cambodia has 25 provinces and municipalities. Each province is divided into districts (''Srok''/''Khan''; , /) - there are 159 districts throughout the country’s provinces, and 12 are in Phnom Penh. Each province has one capital district (changed to " city/town", ''krong''; , ), e.g. for Siem Reap, it's ''Srok Siem Reap''. The exceptions are the provinces of Banteay Meanchey, Kandal, Mondulkiri, Oddar Meanchey, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri, where the province and the capital district does not match. A district of a province, which is called ''Srok'' (, ), is divided into " communes" (''khum''; , ). A commune is further divided into "villages" (, ). In Phnom Penh the districts are called ''khan'' (, ), ...
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