Phnom Aural ( ), also spelled Phnom Aoral, is the tallest peak in
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 ...
. It is 1,813 meters tall
(other sources give elevations between 1,771
and
1,667 meters
).
It is in the eastern part of the
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 Sea ...
.
To protect the
biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variability of life, life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and Phylogenetics, phylogenetic diversity. Diversity is not distribut ...
of the mountains,
Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary was established in 1993.
This mountain in located in
Aoral District,
Kampong Speu Province.
See also
*
List of Ultras of Southeast Asia
*
List of elevation extremes by country
The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory.
Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential ...
References
External links
* by
World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF)Protected areas in Cambodia
Mountains of Cambodia
Cardamom Mountains
Geography of Kampong Speu province
Highest points of countries
{{Cambodia-geo-stub