What the records say
- When
- 25 Dec 1978 – 26 Sep 1989
- Kind
- Interstate war
- Deaths
- 100,000
- Coordinates
- 11.55° N, 104.92° E
- Type
- Interstate war / occupation
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Cities
- Phnom Penh
- Side a
- Vietnam + Cambodian United Front for National Salvation
- Side b
- Khmer Rouge (+ Chinese backing)
- Alliances
- Vietnam + Cambodian United Front for National Salvation, Khmer Rouge (+ Chinese backing)
Placed approximately by the source.
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
1978–89 conflict between Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict from 1978 to 1989 between Democratic Kampuchea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and their respective allies. It began in December 1978, with a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia which toppled the Khmer Rouge regime and ended in 1989 with the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia.
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3 sources record it
- Global Wars & Armed Conflicts, 1914–2026Kaggle compilationNo licence stated
- COW Inter-State War Data v4.0Correlates of War Project · names it “Vietnamese-Cambodian”Correlates of War: free use with citation
- Wikidata: wars and rebellionsWikidata contributors · names it “Cambodian–Vietnamese War”Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
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