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title: "Cambodia — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Cambodia: capital Phnom Penh, area 181,035 km², population 17,847,982 (2025), currency Cambodian riel. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/cambodia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Cambodia

**Cambodia: Capital Phnom Penh**

181,035 km² · 17,847,982 people (2025) · Cambodian riel

The Tonlé Sap is the largest freshwater lake in South-East Asia and reverses direction twice a year: the monsoon-swollen Mekong pushes water back up the outflow river, and the lake swells roughly fivefold. Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world by land area, covering about 162 hectares.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Phnom Penh
- **Area:** 181,035 km² — 69,898 sq mi
- **Population:** 17,847,982 (2025)
- **Density:** 98.6 people per km²
- **Currency:** Cambodian riel (KHR, ៛)
- **Official language:** Khmer
- **Time zone:** UTC+07:00
- **Calling code:** +855
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** KH · KHM
- **Continent:** Asia

## How it compares

- **By area:** 89 of 200
- **By population:** 73 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Senegal | 196,722 | 18,931,966 |
| Syria | 187,437 | 25,620,427 |
| Cambodia ← | 181,035 | 17,847,982 |
| Uruguay | 176,215 | 3,384,688 |
| Suriname | 163,820 | 639,850 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Cambodia?

Phnom Penh

### What currency does Cambodia use?

The Cambodian riel (KHR).

### How big is Cambodia?

181,035 km², or 69,898 square miles — 89 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Cambodia drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Senegal](https://atoneplace.net/country/senegal/)
- [Syria](https://atoneplace.net/country/syria/)
- [Uruguay](https://atoneplace.net/country/uruguay/)
- [Suriname](https://atoneplace.net/country/suriname/)
- [India](https://atoneplace.net/country/india/)
- [China](https://atoneplace.net/country/china/)
- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [Pakistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/pakistan/)
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- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Philippines](https://atoneplace.net/country/philippines/)
- [Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country/vietnam/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]