Phnom Phen

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Royal Palace
National Museum
Wat Phnom
Killing Fields
Russian Market
Central Market

Phnom Penh, Cambodia
King Norodom moved the capital to Phnom Penh is 1866.  The city is largely a French creation with wide boulevards and stately mansions.  The city is the only major port on the Mekong River above the delta.

In the 1970s, swollen with refugees from civil war, the city had a population of over two million.  On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge forced all the inhabitants into the countryside.  They then blew up a number of buildings including banks and the Catholic Cathedral and destroyed the city plumbing.  Residents only began to return to the ghost city after the Vietnamese takeover in 1979.

 
                     
 

Click on the thumbnail pictures to visit Phnom Penh.  
                     
           
  Royal Palace   National Museum   Wat Phnom   Killing Fields   Russian Market  
                     
                 
  Central Market                  
                     
 

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