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Geography of Cambodia

Geography of Cambodia
Geography of Cambodia

Cambodia comprises of a region of 181,035 square kilometers (69,898 square miles) & lies completely inside the tropics, between scopes 10°and 15°N, and longitudes 102° and 108°E. It fringes Thailand toward the north and west, Laos toward the upper east, and Vietnam toward the east and southeast. It has a 443-kilometer (275-mile) coastline along the Gulf of Thailand.


Cambodia's scene is portrayed by a low-lying focal plain that is encompassed by uplands and low mountains and incorporates theTonle Sap (Great Lake) and the upper ranges of the Mekong River delta. Amplifying outward from this focal district are transitional fields, daintily forested and ascending to heights of around 650 feet (200 meters) above ocean level.

Toward the north the Cambodian plain adjoins a sandstone ledge, which shapes a southward-confronting bluff extending more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from west to east and transcending the plain to statures of 600 to 1,800 feet (180–550 meters). This bluff denotes the southern furthest reaches of the Dângrêk Mountains.

Streaming south through the nation's eastern districts is the Mekong River. East of the Mekong the transitional fields step by step converge with the eastern good countries, an area of forested mountains and high levels that reach out into Laos and Vietnam. In southwestern Cambodia two unmistakable upland hinders, the Krâvanh Mountains and the Dâmrei Mountains, frame another good country locale that spreads a significant part of the land zone between the Tonle Sap and the Gulf of Thailand.

In this remote and to a great extent uninhabited range, Phnom Aural, Cambodia's most noteworthy pinnacle ascends to a height of 5,949 feet (1,813 meters). The southern beach front locale abutting the Gulf of Thailand is a thin marsh strip, intensely lush and inadequately populated, which is secluded from the focal plain by the southwestern good countries.

The most particular geological component is the immersions of the Tonle Sap (Great Lake), measuring around 2,590 square kilometers (1,000 square miles) amid the dry season and growing to around 24,605 square kilometers (9,500 square miles) amid the stormy season. This thickly populated plain, which is given to wet rice development, is the heartland of Cambodia. Quite a bit of this region has been assigned as a biosphere save.



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