The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) is a Cambodian non-governmental organization whose mission is to research and record the era of Democratic Kampuchea (April 17, 1975 – January 7, 1979) for the purposes of memory and justice. Click on the image to learn about the era of Democratic Kampuchea.
Wikipedia. (2020). Documentation Center of Cambodia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentation Center of Cambodia
The United Nations (UN) in Cambodia works for peace, poverty eradication and human rights in the country. Click on the images to learn about the Sustainable Development Goals in Cambodia
Click on the image to find out how the Asian Development Bank is helping address energy, education and transport issues in Cambodia
Click on the image to discover the UNESCO site of Angkor
Click on the image to discover the UNESCO site Temple of Preah Vihear
Click on the image to discover the UNESCO site Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of Ancient Ishanapura
Capital: Phnom Penh.
Official language: Khmer.
Official name: Kingdom of Cambodia.
Area: 69,898 mi2 (181,035 km2). Greatest distances—east-west, 350 mi (563 km); north-south, 280 mi (451 km). Coastline—220 mi (354 km).
Population: Current estimate—16,751,000; density, 240 per mi2 (93 per km2); distribution, 77 percent rural, 23 percent urban. 2008 census—13,395,682.
Chief products: Agriculture—cassava, cattle, corn, rice, rubber. Manufacturing and processing—cement, clothing, footwear, processed foods.
Flag: Cambodia's flag has horizontal stripes of blue, red, and blue (top to bottom). A white temple appears on the red stripe.
National anthem: "Royal Kingdom."
Money: Basic unit—riel.
Form of government: Constitutional monarchy.
Climate: Tropical with high temperatures all year. Rainy season from May to November.
Facts in brief about Cambodia [Online table]. (2020). In World Book Advanced. Retrieved from
https://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar089140&st=cambodia#tab=homepage
Mapping Memories Cambodia (MMC) is an interactive web- and mobile application that tells place-based stories of the Khmer Rouge (KR) era. MMC guides users to places where history happened. Users can read and listen to stories told by survivors, experts and historians in multimedia format. The stories are written and produced into video documentaries, radio features, photo-stories, feature article and factbox by the students of Department of Media and Communication of the Royal University of Phnom Penh.
Since 1994, the award-winning Cambodian Genocide Program, a project of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, has been studying these events to learn as much as possible about the tragedy, and to help determine who was responsible for the crimes of the Pol Pot regime. Click on the image to examine over 6,000 photographs, along with documents, translations, maps, and an extensive list of CGP books and research papers on the genocide, as well as the CGP’s newly-enhanced, interactive Cambodian Geographic Database, CGEO, which includes data on: Cambodia’s 13,000 villages; the 115,000 sites targeted in 231,00 U.S. bombing sorties flown over Cambodia in 1965-75, dropping half a million or more tons of munitions; 158 prisons run by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime during 1975-1979, and 309 mass-grave sites with an estimated total of 19,000 grave pits; and 76 sites of post-1979 memorials to victims of the Khmer Rouge. When at the website, click on the links on the sidebar to dive deeper into the collection.
Click on the image to search the CIA Factbook for information about Cambodia
Click on the image to read a short timeline of the Khmer Rouge. Then, follow the links at the bottom of the article for further reading.
Click on the image to find out about the fascinating history of the national flag of Cambodia.The flag is a visual image of the history of Cambodia
Click on the image to search over 70,000 documents in the collection of digitized journals, newspapers, manuscripts and old books in French and Khmer languages on Cambodian and Indochine culture. This collection is from the National Library of Cambodia, National Museum of Cambodia Library and the Editions du Mekong collections.
