Khmer Click on the map to view a large scale version. Located in the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia, Cambodia has a coastline on the Gulf of Thailand and shares borders with Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Over three quarters of Cambodia is forested, with mangroves lining the coast.
Rice is the principal crop.
Cambodia has emerged from two decades of civil war and invasion from Vietnam. The UN's biggest-ever peacekeeping operation resulted in free elections in 1993.