Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia ranks 126th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kuwait, Zambia, and Qatar. Memorable people born in present day Cambodia include Pol Pot, Norodom Sihanouk, and Nuon Chea. Memorable people who died in Cambodia include Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, and Jayavarman VII. Cambodia has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and mafiosos.

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of Thailand in the southwest. It spans an area of 181,035 square kilometres, dominated by a low-lying floodplain of the Mekong river and Tonlé Sap, Southeast Asia's largest lake. It is dominated by a tropical climate and is rich in wildlife and biodiversity. Cambodia has a population of about 17 million people, the majority of which are ethnically Khmer. Its capital and most populous city is Phnom Penh, followed by Siem Reap and Battambang. Read more on Wikipedia