SE Asia
Cambodia
Kandal Province

Choeung Ek

Choeung Ek is a site in Dangkao on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, that was used as a Killing Field between 1977 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge to perpetrate the Cambodian genocide.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Mass grave of the victims of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
  • Also known as: “Choeung Ek Genocidal Center” and “Killing Fields”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Koh Pich and Phnom Penh.

Suburb
Photo: Io Herodotus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is one of central business district. The district is developed by Cambodian group OCIC since 2006. is situated between the and rivers and forms part of , bordering Koh Norea. is situated 8 km northeast of Choeung Ek.

Photo: gusjer, CC BY 2.0.
, at the confluence of the Mekong and the Tonle Sap Rivers, is the capital of and its largest city. Having been liberated in the late 1970s from Khmer Rouge oppression, the city has exploded in activity in the 21st century and now a thumping little metropolis, small at heart but big in vibe.

Choeung Ek

Latitude
11.48421° or 11° 29′ 3″ north
Longitude
104.90225° or 104° 54′ 8″ east
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
7P36FWM2+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 182972997
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6942278
Wiki­data ID
Q1075734
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Choeung Ek” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “Choeung Ek”
  • Chinese: “琼邑克”
  • Croatian: “Choeung Ek”
  • Dutch: “Choeung Ek”
  • Esperanto: “Choeung Ek”
  • Finnish: “Choeung Ek”
  • French: “Choeung Ek”
  • Galician: “Choeung Ek”
  • German: “Choeung Ek Völkermord-Gedenkzentrum”
  • German: “Choeung Ek”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ואנג אק”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ונג אק”
  • Hungarian: “Csoeng Ek”
  • Indonesian: “Choeung Ek”
  • Italian: “Choeung Ek”
  • Japanese: “チュンエク”
  • Maltese: “Choeung Ek”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Choeung Ek”
  • Norwegian: “Choeung Ek”
  • Persian: “چوئونگ اک”
  • Polish: “Choeung Ek”
  • Russian: “Тьэнгъаек”
  • Russian: “Чоенг Эк”
  • Russian: “Чоэнг-Эк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Choeung Ek”
  • Slovenian: “Čoeung Ek”
  • Spanish: “Choeung Ek”
  • Spanish: “Memorial Choeung Ek”
  • Swedish: “Choeung Ek”
  • Thai: “เจิงเอก”
  • Turkish: “Choeung Ek”
  • Vietnamese: “Choeung Ek”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Choeung Ek”. Photo: Timgray200, CC BY-SA 3.0.