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Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh is a city at the meeting of the Mekong and Tonlé Sap rivers in Cambodia. It became a royal capital after Angkor was abandoned in the 15th century and has been the capital of Cambodia since 1865 under King Norodom. The Khmer Rouge emptied the city in April 1975, and it was repopulated after the Vietnamese invasion of 1979.

Phnom Penh
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Khmer EmpireDecline, SummaryFrench IndochinaGovernanceSocialist Republic of VietnamMilitary

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Post-Angkorian CambodiaFrench protectorate of CambodiaKingdom of Cambodia (1953-1970)Khmer RepublicDemocratic KampucheaPeople's Republic of Kampuchea

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Phnom Penh. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/phnom-penh
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