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Kandieng (district)
Kandieng ( ) is a district in Pursat province, Cambodia. The district capital is at Kandieng (town), Kandieng town located about 12 km from the Provincial capital Pursat (town), Pursat. Location Kandieng shares a border with the districts of Bakan (district), Bakan to the west, Sampov Meas (district), Sampov Meas to the south and Krakor (district), Krakor to the east. The northern part of the district encompasses a portion of the Tonle Sap lake and there is one settlement on the edge of the lake at Reang Til. This is a Tonle Sap floating village and the location moves depending on the water level in the lake. According to the 1998 Census, Kandieng district is made up of 9 communes and 113 villages. The population of the district was 53,335 in 10,148 households at the time of the last census. Administration The following table shows the villages of Kandieng district by commune. Characteristics Kandieng is home to several villages of traditional sculptors who work in marb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cambodian Districts And Sections
This is a list of Cambodia's 163 districts ( ''srok''), 33 district-level municipalities ( ''krong'') and 14 sections ( ''khan'') organized by each Provinces of Cambodia, province and an Provinces of Cambodia, autonomous municipality (Phnom Penh). Banteay Meanchey Province, Banteay Meanchey Banteay Meanchey contains 7 Districts (ស្រុក Srok), 2 Municipalities (ក្រុង Krong) and 658 Villages (ភូមិ Phum). Battambang Province, Battambang Battambang contains 13 Districts (ស្រុក Srok), 1 Municipality (ក្រុង Krong) and 844 Villages (ភូមិ Phum). Kampong Cham Province, Kampong Cham Kampong Cham contains 9 Districts (ស្រុក Srok), 1 Municipality (ក្រុង Krong) and 947 Villages (ភូមិ Phum). Kampong Chhnang Province, Kampong Chhnang Kampong Chhnang contains 7 Districts (ស្រុក Srok), 1 Municipality (ក្រុង Krong) and 569 Villages (ភូមិ Phum). Kampong Speu Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kandieng Commune
Kandieng ( ) is a district in Pursat province, Cambodia. The district capital is at Kandieng town located about 12 km from the Provincial capital Pursat. Location Kandieng shares a border with the districts of Bakan to the west, Sampov Meas to the south and Krakor to the east. The northern part of the district encompasses a portion of the Tonle Sap lake and there is one settlement on the edge of the lake at Reang Til. This is a Tonle Sap floating village and the location moves depending on the water level in the lake. According to the 1998 Census, Kandieng district is made up of 9 communes and 113 villages. The population of the district was 53,335 in 10,148 households at the time of the last census. Administration The following table shows the villages of Kandieng district by commune. Characteristics Kandieng is home to several villages of traditional sculptors who work in marble. Buddhist statues and animal carvings are in strong demand and pieces from Kandieng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihanouk to describe his country's heterogeneous, communist-led dissidents, with whom he allied after the 1970 Cambodian coup d'état. The Kampuchea Revolutionary Army was slowly built up in the forests of eastern Cambodia during the late 1960s, supported by the People's Army of Vietnam, the Viet Cong, the Pathet Lao, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Although it originally fought against Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge changed its position and supported Sihanouk following the CCP's advice after he was overthrown in a 1970 coup d'état by Lon Nol who established the pro-American Khmer Republic. Despite a massive American bombing campaign (Operation Freedom Deal) against them, the Khmer Rouge won the Cambodian Civil War when they Fall of Phnom Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veal Veang (district)
Veal Veng (or Veal Veaeng), , is a district in Pursat Province, Cambodia. The district capital is Pramoey town located by road from National Highway Number 5. Characteristics Veal Veang shares a border with Battambang Province to the north, Thailand to the west, Koh Kong Province to the south and the Pursat districts of Phnum Kravanh and Bakan to the east. The northern end of the Cardamom Mountains cover the eastern edge of Veal Veang to the Thai border. According to the 1998 Census, Veal Veang district is made up of 5 communes and 20 villages. However, the population of the district was not enumerated in the census due to security concerns. From 1979 until the end of the 1990s, Veal Veang was one of the last remaining strongholds of the Khmer Rouge. The legacy of the Cambodian civil war and over 30 years of Khmer Rouge occupation has left many parts of the district heavily contaminated with landmines. As mines are cleared and roads improved, logging both legal and illegal th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardamom Mountains
The Cardamom Mountains (, ; , ), or the Krâvanh Mountains, is a mountain range in the southwest part of Cambodia and Eastern Thailand. The majority of the range is within Cambodia. The silhouette of the Cardamom Mountains appears in the Seals of the provinces of Thailand, provincial seal of Trat Province in Thailand. Location and description The mountain range extends along a southeast-northwest axis from Chanthaburi Province in Thailand, and Koh Kong Province in Cambodia on the Gulf of Thailand, to the Veal Veang District in Pursat Province, and extends to the southeast by the Dâmrei Mountains, Dâmrei (Elephant) Mountains. The Thai part of the range comprise heavily eroded and dispersed mountain fragments of which the Khao Sa Bap, Khao Soi Dao and Chamao-Wong Mountains, east, north and west of Chanthaburi respectively, are the most prominent. Dense tropical rainforest prevails on the wet westward slopes which annually receive from of rainfall. By contrast, only 1,000 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siem Reap
Siem Reap (, ) is the second-largest city of Cambodia, as well as the capital and largest city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia. Siem Reap possesses French-colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter and around the Old Market. The city is a major hub for tourism in Cambodia due to its close proximity to the ancient temples of Angkor constructed during the Khmer Empire. In and around the city there are museums, traditional Apsara dance performances, a Cambodian cultural village, souvenir and handicraft shops, silk farms, rice paddies in the countryside, fishing villages and a bird sanctuary near Tonlé Sap, and a cosmopolitan drinking and dining scene. Siem Reap was named the ASEAN City of Culture for the period 2021–2022 at the 9th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Culture and Arts (AMCA) organized on Oct 22, 2020. History The name "Siem Reap" can be translated to mean 'defeat of Siam' (''siem'' in Khmer) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Cambodia, most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since 1865 and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its political, economic, industrial, and cultural centre. The city's name derives from Wat Phnom, a Buddhist temple, and Penh, Lady Penh, the city's founder. It sits at the confluence of the Tonlé Sap River, Tonlé Sap and Mekong rivers, and is the start of the Bassac River. It is also the seat of Monarchy of Cambodia, Cambodia's monarchy, based at the Royal Palace of Cambodia, Royal Palace. Founded in 1372, Phnom Penh succeeded Angkor Thom as the national capital in 1434 following the Dark ages of Cambodia, fall of Angkor, and remained so until 1497. It regained its capital status during the French protectorate of Cambodia, French colonial era. It underwent a period of investment and modernization during First Kingdom of Cambodia, Cambodia's independence period, earni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veal Commune
Veal is the meat of calves, in contrast to the beef from older cattle. Veal can be produced from a calf of either sex and any breed; however, most veal comes from young male calves of dairy breeds which are not used for breeding. Generally, veal is more expensive by mass than beef from older cattle. Veal production is a way to add value to dairy bull calves and to utilize whey solids, a byproduct from the manufacturing of cheese. Definitions and types There are several types of veal, and terminology varies by country. Similar terms are used in the US, including calf, bob, intermediate, milk-fed, and special-fed. Culinary uses In Italian, French and other Mediterranean cuisines, veal is often in the form of cutlets, such as the Italian ''cotoletta'' or the famous Austrian dish Wiener schnitzel. Some classic French veal dishes include fried '' escalopes'', fried veal ''grenadines'' (small, thick fillet steaks), stuffed ''paupiettes'', roast joints, and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sya Commune
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