Choeung Ek

Choeung Ek is a site in Dangkao on the outskirts of , capital of , that was used as a Killing Field between 1977 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge to perpetrate the Cambodian genocide.
Wikipedia
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  • Abandoned locality
  • …lies at an elevation of 13 metres (43 feet)
  • Description: Mass grave of the victims of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Koh Pich and Phnom Penh.
Io Herodotus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 100-hectare island and a mixed-use… is situated 8 km northeast of Choeung Ek.
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, at the confluence of the Mekong and the…

Choeung Ek

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Latitude
11.48439° or 11° 29′ 4″ north
Longitude
104.90199° or 104° 54′ 7″ east
Open location code
7P36FWM2+QQ
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”
  • 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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