Chbar Mon Municipality
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Chbar Mon Municipality (, ) is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
(''
krong Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Cambodia have several levels. Cambodia is divided into 24 provinces (''khaet''; ) and the special administrative unit and capital of Phnom Penh. Though a different administrative unit, Phnom Penh is a ...
'') located in
Kampong Speu province Kampong Speu (, ; ) is a province of Cambodia. It borders the provinces of Pursat and Kampong Chhnang to the north, Kandal to the east, Takéo to the southeast, Kampot to the south and Koh Kong to the west. Its capital is the town of Chba ...
in central
Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...
. The provincial capital Chbar Mon town is located within the municipality.


Etymology

Chbar Mon () means "
mulberry ''Morus'', a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of 19 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions. Generally, the genus has 64 subordinat ...
garden" in Khmer. It composes of ''Chbar'' () meaning "garden", and ''mon'' () meaning "mulberry".


Administration

Chbar Mon Municipality is subdivided into 5 quarters ('' sangkats'').https://www.stat.go.jp/info/meetings/cambodia/pdf/c14mpin2_5.pdf


References

Districts of Kampong Speu province {{Cambodia-geo-stub