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Tonle Sap

American  
[ton-ley sahp] / ˈtɒn leɪ ˌsɑp /

noun

  1. a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.


Tonle Sap British  
/ ˈtɒnlɪ ˈsæp /

noun

  1. a lake in W central Cambodia, linked with the Mekong River by the Tonle Sap River . Area: (dry season) about 2600 sq km (1000 sq miles); (rainy season) about 10 000 sq km (3860 sq miles)

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The size of Tonle Sap is dictated by the seasons.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2017

Pheng has seen the amount of fish he is able to reel in from Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake dwindle to around 30 percent of his original catch.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2017

Today’s capital of 2.2 million people, at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers, was known to Mouhot as “the Great Bazaar.”

From New York Times • May 13, 2015

A few incongruous factories are scattered among the fields, but mostly it’s a green landscape that stretches to the broad waters of the Tonle Sap River.

From New York Times • May 13, 2015

The buildings are narrow, closely built, as the city’s perimeter is longer than it is wide, stretching two miles along the Tonle Sap River.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung