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Capital: Svay Rieng
Location: Southeast
Area: 2,966 km2
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Population: 478,252
Density: 161.2 /km2
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| Chantrea , Kampong Rou , Rumduol , Romeas Haek ,Svay Chrum , Svay Rieng , Svay Teab |
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| General Information
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Svay (pronounced Swai) Rieng and Prey Veng is a province located in south east Cambodia and is bordering Prey Veaeng province to the north, Vietnam to the east and south and Kandaal province to the west. The road running through this province is one of the country’s busiest highways since it links with the National Highway 1 from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Phnom Penh. Since the rehabilitation of national road one, it is more convenience to commute to this province by car on national road number one (must cross ferry at Neak Loeang). The journey might take approximately 2 hours and a half. Geographically, Svay Rieng is a low land province. Majority of land is arable land and it is under Mekong water half a year. According to Ministry of Interior statistics, Svay Rieng province covers 2,869.35 km2. Administratively, this province is divided into 07 districts, 80 communes and 690 villages. According to 1995 population census, there were 478,612 person accounted for 98,580 households settled in Svay Rieng province. Svay Rieng is also considered one of the
Cambodia's poorest provinces because of the poor quality of its land. Most of the population eke out a subsistence living based on farming and fishing. There is really nothing to attract visitors, but the provincial capital, Svay Rieng, is a typical Cambodian town with some charm.
The province of Svay Rieng during the Vietnam War, became an obsession with the American forcers because they believed that this was where the Vietnamese
communists version of the Pentagon was situated. While there were undoubtedly a lot of Vietnamese communists hiding out in Cambodia during much of the war, there was no such thing asa a Pentagon. In 1969 the Americans began unauthorized bombing in this area and in 1970 joined forces with South Vietnamese forces and launched a ground assault.
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