Phnom Penh

Or Pnom Penh,

[nom pen, puh-nawm pen]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Cambodia, in the S part.

Phnom Penh

/ ˌpnɒm ˈpɛn /

noun

1. Official transliteration: Phnum Péhn. the capital of Cambodia, a port in the south at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap Rivers: capital of the country since 1865; university (1960). Pop: 1 174 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

The group says on its website that it has a commercial bank called Prince Bank and that one of its real-estate arms is developing a 47-story tower in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital.

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Every family—including Sothea and his wife, who took in six children—got its own wooden house, built Cambodian-style on stilts on a leafy riverside property Johnson purchased in Phnom Penh.

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A 34-year-old British woman has been stabbed to death in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, local police say.

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So Thailand's accusation that Cambodian soldiers have been laying new anti-personnel mines along the border, causing multiple injuries to Thai soldiers, is an awkward one for the government in Phnom Penh.

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Thailand closed some of its border crossings, expelled the Cambodian ambassador and recalled its own from Phnom Penh.

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