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Every year, nearly 2.6 million [180] tourists visit Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The tourism industry is the country's second-greatest source of hard currency after the textile industry. [77] International visitor arrivals in 2018 topped six million, a ten-fold increase since the beginning of the 21st century. [181]
[2] [3] All land west of the Mekong remained Kampong Cham while land east of the river became Tbong Khmum province. Prior to this division, Kampong Cham extended eastward to the international border with Vietnam , was the eleventh largest province in Cambodia, and with a population of 1,680,694, was the most populous province in Cambodia.
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Phnom Penh (lit. "Penh's hill") takes its name from the present Wat Phnom (lit. "hill temple"), or from the ancient Funan Kingdom, which existed from the 1st to the 7th century AD in Southeast Asia and was the forerunner of the current Cambodian monarchy.
As a result the Tonle Sap River (length around 115 km (71 mi)) flows 6 months a year from South-East (Mekong) to North-West (lake) and 6 month a year in the opposite direction. The mean annual reverse flow volume in the Tonle Sap is 30 km 3 (7.2 cu mi), or about half of the maximum lake volume.
The district is subdivided into 4 communes and 24 villages . [4] According to the 1998 Census, the population of the district was 45,354 persons in 8,236 households in 1998. With a population of over 45,000 people, Kampong Cham is the least populated district in Kampong Cham province and is the smallest in area.
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.
It is the 12th largest city in Cambodia with a population of 61,750 people (2021) [2] and is located on the Mekong River. Kampong Cham is 124 kilometers northeast from national capital Phnom Penh and can be reached by either boat or by asphalt road.