# The World Factbook (1982)/Kampuchea
## KAMPUCHEAKAMPUCHEA

* (See reference map IX)

### LANDLAND

181,300 km$^2$; 16% cultivated, 74% forested, 10% built-on area, wasteland, and other
Land boundaries: 2,438 km

### WATERWATER

Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 12 nm (economic including fishing 200 nm)
Coastline: about 443 km

### PEOPLEPEOPLE

Population: 5,882,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 1.9%
Nationality: noun—Kampuchean(s); adjective—Kampuchean
Ethnic divisions: 90% Khmer (Kampuchean), 5% Chinese, 5% other minorities
Religion: 95% Theravada Buddhism, 5% various other
Language: Cambodian

### GOVERNMENTGOVERNMENT

Official name: Democratic Kampuchea (supported by resistance forces deployed principally near the western border); People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK; pro-Vietnamese, in Phnom Penh)
Type: both are Communist states
Capital: Phnom Penh
Political subdivisions: 19 provinces
Legal system: Judicial Committee chosen by People's Representative Assembly in Democratic Kampuchea; no information for PRK
National holiday: 17 April for both regimes
Branches: Cabinet, State Presidium, and some form of People's Representative Assembly in Democratic Kampuchea; Peoples Revolutionary Council, various ministries, and a "National Congress" held in early 1979 and a second time in September 1979 in PRK
​Government leaders: Presidium Chairman and Prime Minister KH1EU SAMPHAN; Deputy Prime Ministers IENG SARY and SON SEN; Assembly Standing Committee Chairman NUON CHEA in Democratic Kampuchea; Chairman, Council of State, HENG SAMRIN; Chairman, Council of Ministers, CHAN SI; Minister of National Defense BOU THANG; and Foreign Minister HUN SEN in PRK
Suffrage: universal over age 18
Political parties and leaders: Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Communist Party disbanded December 1981 though chief political figure still former party chairman Pol Pot; in PRK Kampuchean United Front for National Construction and Defense (KUFNCD) and separate Kampuchean Peoples Revolutionary Party
Member of: Colombo Plan, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, ILO, IMCO, IMF, ITU, Mekong Committee (inactive), NAM, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO, WTO for Democratic Kampuchea; none for PRK

### ECONOMYECONOMY

GNP: less than $500 million (1971)
Agriculture: mainly subsistence except for rubber plantations; main crops—rice, rubber, corn; food shortages—rice, meat, vegetables, dairy products, sugar, flour
Major industries: rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products
Shortages: fossil fuels
Electric power: 120,000 kW capacity (1981); 100 million kWh produced (1981), 18 kWh per capita
Exports: probably less than $1 million est. (1978); natural rubber, rice, pepper, wood
Imports: probably less than $20 million (1978); food, fuel, machinery
Trade partners: (1978) exports—China; imports—China, North Korea; (1981) Vietnam and USSR
Aid: economic commitments—US (FY70-80), $690 million; other Western, (1970-79) $135 million; military (FY70-80)—US, $1,260 million; Communist not available
Budget: no budget data available since Communists took over government
Monetary conversion rate (1978): no currency in use
Fiscal year: calendar year

### COMMUNICATIONSCOMMUNICATIONS

Railroads: 612 km meter gauge (1.00 m); government owned
Highways: 13,351 km total; 2,622 km bituminous, 7,105 km crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth; and 3,624 km unimproved earth; some roads in disrepair
Inland waterways: 3,700 km navigable all year to craft drawing 0.6 meters; 282 km navigable to craft drawing 1.8 meters
Ports: 2 major, 5 minor
Airfields: 52 total, 23 usable; 9 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 8 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications: service barely adequate for government requirements and virtually nonexistent for general public; international service limited to Vietnam and other adjacent countries; radiobroadcasts limited to 1 station

### DEFENSEDEFENSE

Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,571,000; 843,000 fit for military service; 99,000 reach military age (18) annually