People's Republic of Kampuchea
former socialist state with limited recognition in Cambodia
The People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) was a partially recognised state in Southeast Asia supported by Vietnam which existed from 1979 to 1989. It was founded in the country, Cambodia, by the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation. The Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation is a group of Cambodian communists who were not satisfied with the Khmer Rouge due to its terrible rule of Cambodia and left it after the Cambodian–Vietnamese War of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot's government. Brought about by an invasion from Vietnam, which routed the Khmer Rouge armies, it had Vietnam and the Soviet Union as its main allies.
People's Republic of Kampuchea | |||||||||
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| 1979–1989 | |||||||||
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| Motto: ឯករាជ្យ សន្តិភាព សេរីភាព សុភមង្គល[1] "Independence, Peace, Liberty, Happiness" | |||||||||
| Anthem: បទចម្រៀងនៃសាធារណរដ្ឋប្រជាមានិតកម្ពុជា "Anthem of the People's Republic of Kampuchea" | |||||||||
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| Capital and largest city | Phnom Penh | ||||||||
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| Religion | State secularism[2][1] | ||||||||
| Government | Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic | ||||||||
| General Secretary | |||||||||
• 1979–1981 | Pen Sovan | ||||||||
• 1981–1989 | Heng Samrin | ||||||||
| Head of state | |||||||||
• 1979–1989 | Heng Samrin | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1981 | Pen Sovan | ||||||||
• 1982–1984 | Chan Sy | ||||||||
• 1985–1989 | Hun Sen | ||||||||
| Legislature | National Assembly | ||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||
| 7 January 1979 | |||||||||
• Constitution | 25 June 1981 | ||||||||
• K5 Plan | 1985 | ||||||||
• Transition | 1 May 1989 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1980 | 6,600,000[3] | ||||||||
| Currency | Kampuchean riel (from 1980) Vietnamese đồng (until 1980) | ||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+07:00 (ICT) | ||||||||
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy | ||||||||
| Driving side | right | ||||||||
| Calling code | +855 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Cambodia | ||||||||
References change
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Constitution of the People's Republic of Kampuchea" (PDF) (in Khmer). Constitutional Council of Cambodia. 25 June 1981. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ↑ "Cambodia – Religion". Britannica. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ↑ "Results of the 1998 Population Census in Cambodia". Asia-Pacific Population Journal. September 2000. Archived from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2019.