Cambodia

Cambodia
A tropical country in south-east Asia flanked by Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.

Physical.

Through it from the north flows the Mekong, while westward is a large lake, the Tonlé Sap. The climate is tropical monsoon, and most of the land marshy or forested. A short coastline faces south-west on the Gulf of Thailand.

Economy.

Cambodia's economy is overwhelmingly agricultural, and rubber is a major export. There is limited light industry, notably garment making. The prolonged civil war and the Khmer Rouge regime's policies of resettlement decimated the economy but there has since been a significant recovery.

History.

Cambodia was occupied from the 1st to the 6th century ad by the Hindu kingdoms of Funan, and subsequently Chenla. The Khmer people overthrew the Hindu rulers of Chenla and established a Buddhist empire, centred around the region of [The entire page is 780 words long]

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