Cambodia, known as Cambodia, formerly known as Khmer, is located in the Indochina Peninsula, west and northwest border with Thailand, northeast and Laos at the junction of the eastern and southeastern and adjacent to Vietnam, the south is facing the Gulf of Siam. Cambodian territory for the disc-shaped basin, surrounded by mountains and mountains on three sides, the central part of the vast and rich plains, accounting for more than three quarters of the country. The territory of the Mekong and Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake - Tonle Sap Lake (also known as Phnom Penh), the capital of Phnom Penh.
Cambodia is a long history of ancient civilization, as early as the first century AD established a unified kingdom. Beginning in the 1970s, Cambodia experienced a long war. In 1993, Cambodia entered a new era of peace and development with the establishment of Cambodian state power institutions and the realization of national reconciliation.
Cambodia is a member of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), with agriculture as the mainstay and weak industrial base. It is one of the least developed countries in the world.
