Cambodia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
country in Southeast Asia
About Cambodia
Cambodia has had a pretty bad run of luck for the last half-millennium or so. Ever since the fall ofAngkorin 1431, the once mightyKhmer Empirewas plundered by all its neighbours. Cambodia was colonised by the French in the 19th century, and during the 1970s suffered heavy carpet bombing by the USA. After a false dawn of independence in 1953, Cambodia promptly plunged back into the horrors of civil war in 1970 to suffer theKhmer Rouge'sincredibly brutal reign of terror followed by occupation by Vietnamese forces, and only after UN-sponsored elections in 1993 did the country begin to struggle back onto its feet. In 2011, 10% of the population lived on less than US$1.25 per day, down from 31% in 2007. However, 41% of the population still lived on less than US$2 per day, and 72% lived on less
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