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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • Kampu·chean adjective noun
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Example Sentences

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

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.

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

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

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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