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Phnom Penh
Capital of Cambodia, lying in the south of the country, at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers, 210 km/130 mi northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; population (1998) 570,200, (2007 calc) 1,781,100. Industries include textiles, food processing, footwear, paper, tyres, and glassware.
History
Established as a settlement in the 14th century, Phnom Penh became the capital of the Khmer Empire in about 1434 and the capital of Cambodia in 1867. The communist Khmer Rouge forces, led by Pol Pot, took over the country in 1975 and forced almost all the inhabitants of Phnom Penh into the countryside. After the defeat of the Khmer Rouge by Vietnamese forces in 1979, the city was gradually repopulated.
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