What the records say
- When
- 1953
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Cambodia
- Coordinates
- 12.65° N, 104.50° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 4440000
- Area km2
- 172511
- Losing
- France
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Cambodia
Country in Southeast Asia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of Thailand in the southwest. It spans an area of about 181,035 km2 (69,898 sq mi), dominated by a low-lying plain and the confluence of the Mekong river and Tonlé Sap, Southeast Asia's largest lake.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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