Kampong Thom Province

កំពង់ធំ Kampong Thom Province
Basic data
Country	Cambodia
Capital	Kampong Thom
surface	13,814 km²
Residents	691,800 (2017)
density	50 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	KH-6
Sambor Prei Kuk temple complex

Coordinates: 12 ° 42 '  N , 104 ° 54'  E

Kampong Thom ( Khmer កំពង់ធំ , transcription: Kâmpóng Thum , IPA : [ kɑmpoŋ tʰum ]) is a province of Cambodia with the provincial capital of the same name . The province is east of Tonle Sap Lake and roughly in the middle of the country.

structure

Kampong Thom Province is divided into these eight districts:

Geocode	Khmer	District names
0601	ស្រុក បារាយណ៍	Baray
0602	ស្រុក កំពង់ស្វាយ	Kampong Svay
0603	ក្រុង ស្ទឹងសែន	Stueng Saen
0604	ស្រុក ប្រាសាទ បល្ល័ង្ក	Prasat Balang
0605	ស្រុក ប្រាសាទសំបូរ	Prasat Sambour
0606	ស្រុក សណ្ដាន់	Sandan
0607	ស្រុក សន្ទុក	Santuk
0608	ស្រុក ស្ទោង	Stoung

history

The Sambor Prei Kuk ruins are located in the Kampong Thom province . This goes back to the historic city of Isanapura , which was the capital of the Kingdom of Chenla in the 7th and 8th centuries .

economy

In 2008, Kuwait pledged a total of 486 million US dollars to finance a dam on the Stueng Saen River in the north of Kampong Thom province, as well as irrigation systems for newly developed rice-growing areas. The development project aims to export the harvested rice to Kuwait.

Web links

Commons : Kampong Thom  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kampong Thom Province. Home of Sambor Prei Kuk. Tourism of Cambodia Description of the Khmer temple sites in the province
• Information on Kampong Thom Province. Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo, March 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistically projected population figures for 2017 on citipopulation.de
2. ↑ Kuwait loans Cambodia $ 546m for agriculture. Gulf News, Aug. 22, 2008