Cambodia

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Cambodia
country profile

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geography

• 181,040 square km

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population

• Population 13,124,764 (UK 60,094,648)
• Population density 74/square km (UK 249/square
  km)
• The population of the UK is around five times
  that of Cambodia

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religion

• Buddhist 82.6
• Chinese religions 4.7
• Animist 4.35
• Muslim 3.9
• Other 3.6
• Christian 0.85

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economy

• Was virtually destroyed by war
• Little basic infrastructure
• 80 of people in agriculture
• Widespread poverty
• GDP growth rate 4 (2000 est)
• Inflation rate 1.6 (consumer prices)

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history

• 600-1500 Angkor priest-kings
• 500 years of Thai, Vietnamese, French, Japanese
  US invasions
• 1970-75 Vietnam war
• 1975-79 Khmer Rouge
• 1979-91 Vietnamese occupation
• 1997 Pol Pot arrested - dies in 1998
• 1999 other Khmer Rouge leaders arrested