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Wednesday 22 July 2020

Cambodia,Flag history

Cambodia is a southeast Asian nation whose landscape spans low-lying plains.The Mekong Delta,mountains and Gulf of Thailand's coastline. Phnom Penh is it's capital city with around 2 million people while Cambodia is populated with 16 million people. Phnom Penh is home to the art deco Central Market,Royal palace and their National museum's historical and archaeological exhibits.In the country's northwest are the ruins of Angkor Wat,a massive stone temple complex built during the Khmer Empire.  
(Flag of Cambodia)
The National flag of Cambodia in its present form was originally adopted in 1948 and readopted in 1993 after the Constituent Assembly election in 1993 and restoration of the monarchy.

Since around the 1850, the Cambodian flag has featured a depiction of Angkor Wat in the centre.The current flag with a blue border and red centre were adopted following Cambodia's independence in 1948. It was used until 9 October 1970, when a new flag was introduced for Lon Nol's Khmer Republic that lasted until the takeover of the Khmer Rouge in 1975.The subsequent state of Democratic Kampuchea. which existed from 1975 to 1979, used a red flag with a three-towered  Angkor wat design design retained in yellow beginning in 1976. The Peoples republic of kampuchea was established in 1979, after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.

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