Now, Cambodia just gets on the map global travel, after years of the horror a eyebrows are more. Its official name is now Kingdom of Cambodia. After three decades of war has not yet destroyed this beautiful land, the peace has come to the Cambodian people and tourism is take off, but a trip to this small kingdom is still one of the Asia faith adventures.

The powerful empire Khmer during the Angkor period between the 9th to the 15th centuries ruled much of what is now Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, giving his successor to the current Cambodia. The rest tale temples of Angkor, monuments, matchless the scale and splendor in Asia, refers to this empire.

The ultimate of the Khmer genius, it is simply offset by some selected on the earth as strategic Pichhu or the Taj Mahal, which is the first light of travelers to visit Cambodia.

Just behind the temple of Angkor Wat, Cambodia is much more than that to see, the south coast is surrounded by the tropical islands with just a beach hut in lightly, Mekong crosses the country and is in the home of some of the region of freshwater last dolphins Kratie, north-east, which is covers its wild and mountain scenery of the house for ethnic minorities and timid wildlife.

Cambodia has finally the people, resisted years bloodshed poverty and political instability. They came from the experience with the intact smiles; no visitors come away of Cambodia, without a measure of admiration and affection for the inhabitants of this beautiful land.

History
Cambodia were inhabited by approximately 1000-2000 BC by neolithic culture which may have emigrated from south east of China to the Indochina peninsula. The inhabitants had increased relatively stable, societies organized by the first century, which has exceeded the primitive stage in the culture and technical skills. On the coast and in the lower Mekong River, valley and delta regions have been experienced by groups developed in houses constructed on piles where they grew rice, fishes and kept domesticated animals.

The first inhabitants of the Southeast Asia is Khmer People, according to the recent research has released the discovery of artificial circular earthworks dating of Cambodia neolithic ear 1.

They have also adopted religious ideas and political institutions of India and to establish centralized kingdoms vast territories south-east Asia. Funan is known as the name of the earlier the kingdom in the field, flourished from around the first to the sixth century AD and inherited by Chenla, which controlled vast sectors of modern Cambodia Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.

Cambodia History was simply adopted through the good, the bad and the bad. The good things were the first year, which have resulted in the vast empire Angkor incomparable during four centuries of dominant position in the region and has fixed the bad, of the 13th century, such as Cambodia has been chipped away territory by ascendant neighbors regularly. It has proved squarely laid as brutal civil war lead to the policy of genocide of the Khmer Rouge in the 20th century (1975 – 1975), from which Cambodia is still recovering.

Culture 
The Cambodian people have been losers of many a historic battle since the glory days of Angkor Empire, their small country too often a minnow amid the indirect approach sharks. The history has shaped the popular attitude, the fear – some thing aversion base the relationship between Cambodia and its neighbors, Thailand and Vietnam.

With their reluctance to recognize their debt cultural in Cambodia, Thai are had in horror from their patronizing attitudes. Thai popularly held belief that Angkor belongs to Thailand. The Khmer think Thai as cultural kidnappers who have helped and encouraged Cambodia the decline.
Vietnamese are a nuisance and ambivalent which Cambodian attitudes. They generally hat they, too, but respect for hard work ethnic and of "liberation" in 1979 of Khmer Rouge regime is well-balanced with envy. When Vietnamese became occupation in the 1980S, most of the Cambodian people soon remember why they do not like the Vietnamese after all. The Vietnamese were considered, as colonial and fly earth, by the most Cambodians but better the devil you know. It is probably the Thai to choose who they mistrust more, if the most Cambodia had to choose – at least the Vietnamese understand the suffering of the Cambodian people that they have suffered too.
Cambodia seems to be a nation full of shiny, people happy at the first sight, but a little further look and he quickly becomes a country of contradictions. All are visible on a trip through the kingdom – the love and hate, life and death, rich and poor, Dark and light, but most tell all is the glorious past together against Cambodia this tragic.

Population
The population of the country is almost 11.5 million; by the country of first census for decades, which has made in 1998. Now, the population is to hit 14 million with a rapid increase in 2.4 per cent and is expected to reach 20 million by the year 2020.
A million people live in the largest city of Phnom Penh. Battambang, Siem Rap and Sihanouk City are the other major population centers beside Phnom Penh, while the most populated province is Kampong Cham, where 14% of Cambodians live.

It is not serious imbalance men/women due to years of conflict as it was 1980, but it is still important: there are currently 93.1 men at all 100 women, 86.1 to 100 in 1980. However, there is a marked imbalance in age groups: more than 40% of the population is less than 15 years.

Religion
Hinduism
Alongside Buddhism, Hinduism prospered 1st century AD until the 14th century. Hinduism was represented by the cult of Marinra (Shiva and Vishnu devoted a single deity) during the pre-Heritage period. Shiva, during the time of Angkor, has been the divinity in favor of the royal family, although, in the 12th century, it has been replaced by Vishnu. Today some elements of Hinduism are still incorporated in important ceremonies involving birth, marriage and death.

Buddhism
The majority of Cambodians today practice Theravada Buddhism, while the Buddhism was presented in Cambodia between the 13th and 14th centuries. The majority of Cambodians monks were murdered by Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979 and almost all the Vats of countries (more than 3000) have been destroyed or damaged. Once again Buddhism became of state religion in the 1980s and today young monks are a common view throughout the country. Many vats have been rebuilt.

Animism
Both Hinduism and Buddhism were gradually absorbed beyond the borders of Cambodia, boot with the animistic beliefs already present among the Khmer before Indianization. Local Beliefs did not simply be blurred, but have been incorporated into the new religions to form something just Cambodia. The concept of Neak Ta has its foundations in animistic beliefs regarding sacred soil and sacred spirit around us. Neak Ta can be considered as a mother earth conceptual, an energy force bringing together a community with its land and water. It may be represented in many forms of stone or wood of termite hills – something which symbolizes both a link between population and the fertility of their land.

The purest of animism is practiced among the Khmer Leu. Some have converted to Buddhism, but the majority continues to worship minds of the earth and the sky and the minds of their ancestors.

Islam
Cambodia' s Muslims are descendants of Chams who emigrated from what is now of central Vietnam after the last defeat of the Kingdom of Champa by Vietnamese in 1471. As their neighbors Buddhist, however, the Cham Muslims call the faithful to prayer by typing a drum, rather than with the call of the muezzin, as in most Muslims land.

Christianity
Christianity had made limited progress in Cambodia compared with neighboring countries Vietnam. There have been a number of churches in Cambodia before the war, but many of these have been systematically destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, including Notre Dame Catheral in Phnom Penh. Christianity has done a return of kinds in all the refugee camps on the Thai border in the 1980s, as a number of food-for-faith type charities established shop exempting Jesus with each meal. Many Cambodians have changed their public confidence for survival, before converting back to Buddhism on their departure of the camp.

The Land
The contemporary form Cambodia has come through a classic historical squeeze. Like the Vietnamese pushed toward the south in the Mekong Delta and the Thais pushed toward the west Angkor, Cambodia has decreased. The ironically it was that the arrival of the French which prevented Cambodia going away of the Chams, a people without state, and in this sense, it was a protectorate that protected.

Cambodia today is 181, 035 square kilometers in size, making a little more than half size of Vietnam. The country is broader (approximately 580km east – west) that it is tall (approximately 450 south – north); to the west it borders Thailand, to the north Thailand and Laos, to the east Vietnam and to the south the Gulf of Thailand.

Cambodia’s two prevailing characteristics are the Mekong, which is, incredibly, 5 km wide in places, and the huge Tonle Sap lake (the largest lake freshwater in South Asia, is an incredible natural phenomenon, which provides fish protein and irrigation water for almost half the population of Cambodia. The lake is linked to the Mekong at Phnom Penh by 100km-long channel, also known as the Tonle Sap lake River. From mid-May to early October, the level of the Mekong River is rapidly rising, the safeguarding of Tonle Sap lake river and causing flow of north-west in the Tonle Sap lake, during this period, the lake swell of 2500 km² to 13000 km² or more, it is the maximum depth from approximately 2.2 m over 10m. Around the beginning of October, as the level of water in the Mekong begins to fall, the lake reverses its flow, draining the waters of the lake back into the Mekong.

This process extraordinary makes the Tonle Sap lake one of the richest of the world freshwater sources, flooded forest as a fertile spawning ground. The experts consider that fish migration from Tonle Sap lake help to repopulate fisheries as much as northern China. The sector of the fishing supports approximately one million people in Cambodia and a person of catch on the grand lake can average 100 kg to 200 kg per day during the dry season.

This unique ecosystem has contributed to win the Tonle Sap biosphere protected status, but this may not be enough to protect from double threat of upstream dams and excessive deforestation. Dams hold uncertain for consequences schemes the Mekong River and migratory patterns of fish. The illegal felling looses topsoil in the highlands in Cambodia and this silt is ensured in the country of rivers in the lake. The less deep areas may in the time starts to limon, providing disastrous consequences not only for Cambodia, but also for neighboring countries Vietnam. Hopefully, action will be taken to do everything is possible to protect this unique natural wonder of more harm, but with the Cambodian population increases 300,000 per year, the task is going to be a not at all easy).

The Mekong River, which amounts to Tibet, stream nearly 500km thanks to Cambodia before continuing, via South Vietnam, South China Sea. In Phnom Penh it is divided in upstream of the river (simply called the Mekong River or Vietnamese, Tien Giang) and the Low River (Tonle Basac, or the Hau Giang in Vietnamese). The rich sediment deposited in the course of the Mekong region annual wet-season floods has done for very fertile agricultural land in the center of Cambodia. This low elevation alluvial plain is where the vast majority of Cambodian live, fishing and agriculture in the time with the rural rhythms of the monsoon.

In the south-west, many of the landmass between the gulf of Thailand and the Tonle Sap is covered by mountainous region formed by two ranges: the Chuor Phnom Kravanh (Cardamom Mountains) in the south-west Battambang Province and the Province of Pursat, and the Chuor Phnom Damrei (elephant mountains) in the provinces of Kampong Speu, Koh Kong and Kampot.

South of these mountains is Cambodia’s long coastline, a big draw for visitor on the lookout of tropical beaches isolated. There is awash islands off the coast of Sihanouk Ville, Kep and Koh Kong, which offers promising in the coming years.

Cambodia along the northern border with Thailand, the plains collide with escarpment sandstone striking more than 300 km long and 180 m to 550m in height which marks the southern boundary of the Chuor Phnom Dangrek (Dangrek Mountains). Most of the visitors only see these mountains if the overland pilgrimage to Prasat Preah Vihear. In the northeastern corner of the country, the plains give way to the eastern highland, an isolated area of densely forested mountains and highlands that extends to the eastward into Vietnam’s central highlands and northward into Laos. The wild provinces of Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri provide a home for many minority populations and are take off a traveler hotspots in Cambodia.