Kampuchea

[kam-poo-chee-uh]

noun

1. People's Republic of Kampuchea, a former official name of Cambodia.

Kampuchea

/ ˌkæmpʊˈtʃɪə /

noun

1. the name (1976–89) of Cambodia

Other Word Forms

• Kampuchean adjective

Example Sentences

The list goes on — Cambodia to Kampuchea, Swaziland to Eswatini, Malaya to Malaysia.

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In 1891 a French archaeological team uncovered a stone stele near the village of Sambor on the banks of the Mekong River, in what was then French Indochina, later to become Cambodia/Kampuchea.

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Such executions were common in Democratic Kampuchea, as the Khmer Rouge renamed the country, where an agrarian utopia was to replace a decadent capitalism.

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“It is clear that through me, the chamber was, rather, targeting the Communist Party of Kampuchea.”

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It later became the Communist Party of Kampuchea, known as the shadowy “Angka,” or Organization, and unveiled publicly only in 1977.

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