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The national census does not record population by city, rather by province. The only available method of estimating the population of a city is through the CDB, which is updated every two years. For instance, the 2018 CDB suggests that 1,474,489 people were living in Phnom Penh municipality, [ 1 ] whereas the 2019 census (which only preliminary ...
This is a list of Cambodia's 163 districts (ស្រុក srok), 33 district-level municipalities (ក្រុង krong) and 14 sections (ខណ្ឌ khan) organized by each province and an autonomous municipality .
Geographic map of Cambodia Regional map of Cambodia. Cambodia has an area of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles) and lies entirely within the tropics, between latitudes 10° and 15°N, and longitudes 102° and 108°E. It borders Thailand to the north and west, Laos to the northeast, and Vietnam to the east and southeast.
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. In 802 AD, Jayavarman II declared himself king, uniting the warring Khmer princes of Chenla under the name "Kambuja". This marked the beginning of the Khmer Empire.
Cambodia is divided into 25 provinces (Khmer: ខេត្ត, khétt).The capital Phnom Penh is not a province but an "autonomous municipality" (Khmer: រាជធានី, réachthéani [riəceaʔtʰiəniː]; lit. 'capital'), equivalent to a province governmentally and administered at the same level as the other 24 provinces.
In addition to these subdivisions, there are also cities and towns, which take over some of the responsibilities of the districts and communes on the area covered by the municipality. These all have an elected board and an elected mayor. There are three different levels of municipalities (Khmer: ក្រុង):
English: A map of the hemisphere centred on 105, 12.5, using an orthographic projection, created using gringer's Perl script with Natural Earth Data (1:50000 resolution, simplified to 0.25px). Cambodia is highlighted in red.
List of cities, towns and villages in Bhutan; Municipalities of Brunei; List of cities and towns in Cambodia; List of cities in China; List of villages in China; List of cities, towns and villages in Cyprus; List of cities and towns in Georgia (country) List of towns in Hong Kong; List of villages in Hong Kong; List of cities in India by population