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A Khmer village meeting. The Khmers are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the area, having filtered into Southeast Asia around the same time as the Mon.Most archaeologists and linguists, and other specialists like Sinologists and crop experts, believe they arrived no later than 2000 BCE (over four thousand years ago) bringing with them the practice of agriculture and in particular the ...
The largest of the ethnic groups in Cambodia are the Khmer, who comprise 95.8% of the total population [4] in 2019 and primarily inhabit the lowland Mekong sub region and the central plains.
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Cambodia" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Related ethnic groups; ... King Norodom Sihanouk (later, Prince, then again King), proclaimed Cambodia's independence in 1949 (granted in full in 1953) ...
An ethnic map of Cambodia. The vast majority of Cambodia's population is of ethnic Khmer origin (95.8%) who are speakers of the Khmer language, the country's sole official language. Cambodia's population is largely homogeneous. Its minority groups include Chams (1.8%), Vietnamese (0.5%) and Chinese (0.6%). [213] [214]
The Chams (Cham: ꨌꩌ, چام, cam), or Champa people (Cham: ꨂꨣꩃ ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, اوراڠ چامفا, Urang Campa; [8] Vietnamese: Người Chăm or Người Chàm; Khmer: ជនជាតិចាម, Chônchéatĕ Cham), are an Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia and are the original inhabitants of central Vietnam and coastal Cambodia before the arrival of the Cambodians and ...
Vietnamese Cambodians refers to ethnic group of Vietnamese who live in Cambodia or it refers to Vietnamese who are of full or partial Khmer descent (mainly Khmer Krom in Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam nowadays, also often called as Khmer Mekong). According to Cambodian sources, in 2013, about 15,000 Vietnamese people live in Cambodia.
The Kuy (Khmer: កួយ, Thai: กูย) are an indigenous ethnic group of mainland Southeast Asia. The native lands of the Kuy range from the southern Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand east to the banks of the Mekong River in southern Laos and south to north central Cambodia. [4]