From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishCambodiaCam‧bo‧di‧a /kæmˈbəʊdiə/ a country in southeast Asia between Thailand and Vietnam. Population: 15,205,539 (2014). Capital: Phnom Penh. Its former name was Kampuchea. Cambodia experienced terrible suffering during the 1970s under the government of Pol Pot, and during the civil war that followed in the 1980s. But there were free elections in 1993, and the country began to be rebuilt after many years of war. —Cambodian adjective, noun
