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Capital city: Phnom Penh
note: estimates for this country take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected Ethnic groups that make up the population: Khmer 90%, Vietnamese 5%, Chinese 1%, other 4% Religions: Theravada Buddhist 95%, other 5% Languages: Khmer (official) 95%, French, English Literacy rate (Definition: age 15 and over can read and write):total population: 69.9%; male: 80.5%; female: 60.3% (2003 est.) Legal system: primarily a civil law mixture of French-influenced codes from the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) period, royal decrees, and acts of the legislature, with influences of customary law and remnants of communist legal theory; increasing influence of common law in recent years Industries & Agriculture: tourism, garments, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, rubber, cement, gem mining, textiles/ rice, rubber, corn, vegetables GDP:$20.42 billion GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,600 (2002 est.) Currency: riel (KHR) Misc. interesting facts: Following a five-year struggle, Communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh in 1975 and ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns; over 1 million displaced people died from execution or enforced hardships. A 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside and touched off almost 20 years of fighting. UN-sponsored elections in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normalcy as did the rapid diminishment of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1990s. A coalition government, formed after national elections in 1998, brought renewed political stability and the surrender of remaining Khmer Rouge forces in 1998 References: CIA Fact book http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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