Kampuchea
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Kampuchean adjective
Example Sentences
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The list goes on — Cambodia to Kampuchea, Swaziland to Eswatini, Malaya to Malaysia.
From Seattle Times
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.
From Scientific American
“It is clear that through me, the chamber was, rather, targeting the Communist Party of Kampuchea.”
From Seattle Times
It later became the Communist Party of Kampuchea, known as the shadowy “Angka,” or Organization, and unveiled publicly only in 1977.
From Washington Post
Both the word and the language it was written in could have doomed him when his grandfather was head of state of Kampuchea, as Cambodia was known during the Khmer Rouge era.
From New York Times
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