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KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946
Synonyms:
Cambodia; Kampuchea; Kingdom of Cambodia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Kingdom of Cambodia"):
Cambodian capital; Phnom Penh; Pnom Penh (the capital and largest city of Kampuchea)
Mekong; Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Kingdom of Cambodia"):
Cambodian; Kampuchean (a native or inhabitant of Cambodia)
Domain member region:
Communist Party of Kampuchea; Khmer Rouge; KR; Party of Democratic Kampuchea (a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999)
Holonyms ("Kingdom of Cambodia" is a part of...):
Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)
Holonyms ("Kingdom of Cambodia" is a member of...):
ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)
