KH · Curated travel guide
Angkor Wat, Angkor, Preah Vihear and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Cambodia and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia
A temple complex in Siem Reap, Cambodia, first built as a Vaishnava Hindu temple and now Theravada Buddhist: the largest religious complex in the world.
Photo: The original uploader was Fuzheado at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 2.0
Capital city of the Khmer Empire
Also called Yasodharapura, the capital of the Khmer Empire, in what is now Cambodia; the empire flourished from roughly the 9th to the 15th centuries.
Photo: Manfred Werner ( talk · contribs ), CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
Ancient Buddhist temple in Cambodia
Perched on a 525-metre (1,722 ft) cliff in Cambodia's Dângrêk Mountains, an ancient building that the Khmer Empire raised as a Hindu temple and that later became a Buddhist one.
Photo: PsamatheM, CC BY-SA 4.0
Khmer temple in Angkor Thom, Cambodia
Dating from the late 12th or early 13th century, when King Jayavarman VII made it his state temple, a lavishly decorated Khmer temple of Theravada Buddhism at Angkor, Cambodia, at the heart of Angkor Thom, the king's capital.
Photo: Trusty Tuk Tuk, CC BY-SA 4.0
Former Khmer Rouge prison in Cambodia
A museum of the Cambodian genocide in Phnom Penh, in a former secondary school that the Khmer Rouge regime turned into a prison, Security Prison 21 (S-21), from 1975 until the regime fell in 1979.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Albeiror24 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
Cambodian temple dedicated to Shiva
A Cambodian temple of the 10th century CE dedicated to Shiva and Parvati, Hindu gods. It lies in the Angkor area near Phnom Dei hill, 25 km (16 mi) north-east of the chief cluster of temples of the medieval capitals, Angkor Thom and Yaśodharapura.
Photo: Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0
Buddhist temple at Angkor, Cambodia
Inside Angkor Thom, to the northwest of the Bayon: a temple of the Buddhist faith at Angkor, in Cambodia.
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0
Tallest peak in Cambodia
Also spelled Phnom Aoral, Cambodia's highest peak, 1,813 meters tall.
Photo: Boroli, CC BY-SA 4.0
Temple
Its name meaning “Citadel of Monks' cells”, a temple of the Buddhist faith at Angkor, Cambodia, lying east of Angkor Thom and southeast of Ta Prohm.
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Official residence of the King of Cambodia since the 1860s
A group of buildings that is the King of Cambodia's official royal residence, whose full Khmer name is Preah Barom Reacheaveang Chaktomuk Serey Mongkol.
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0
Officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, a country of Mainland Southeast Asia. Thailand lies to its northwest, Laos to its north and Vietnam to its east, and its southwest coast faces the Gulf of Thailand. It covers about 181,035 km² (69,898 sq mi), mostly a low plain around where the Mekong meets Tonlé Sap, Southeast Asia's biggest lake.
Officially The Kingdom of Cambodia. Known locally as Kampuchea កម្ពុជា.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Angkor Wat, Angkor, Preah Vihear and Bayon and others. Preah Vihear is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Cambodia that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Preah Vihear. That is not the full count for Cambodia, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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