Total area: 181,040 km2
land area: 176,520 km2

Comparative area: slightly smaller than Oklahoma

Land boundaries: 2,572 km total
Laos 541 km, Thailand 803 km, Vietnam 1,228 km

Coastline: 443 km

Maritime claims: @m5Contiguous zone: 24 nm
@m5Continental shelf: 200 nm
@m5Extended economic zone: 200 nm
@m5Territorial sea: 12 nm

Disputes: three short sections of the boundary with Vietnam are in dispute; occupied by Vietnam on 25 December 1978

Climate: tropical; rainy, monsoon season (May to October); dry season (December to March); little seasonal temperature variation

Terrain: mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north

Natural resources: timber, gemstones, some iron ore, manganese, phosphates, hydropower potential

Land use: 16% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 3% meadows and pastures; 76% forest and woodland; 4% other; includes 1% irrigated

Environment: a land of paddies and forests dominated by Mekong River and Tonle Sap

Note: buffer between Thailand and Vietnam

NOTE: The information regarding Cambodia on this page is re-published from the 1989 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Cambodia Geography 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Cambodia Geography 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.