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.Photo: Timgray200, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Koh Pich and Phnom Penh.
Koh Pich
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Photo: Io Herodotus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Koh Pich is a 100-hectare island and a mixed-use estate and central business district in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It lies in the Tonlé Bassac River near Chaktomuk, where the Mekong and Tonlé Sap rivers meet and the Bassac River branches off; it forms part of Chamkar Mon District and faces Koh Norea across the river. Koh Pich is situated 8 km northeast of Choeung Ek.
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh, at the confluence of the Mekong and the Tonle Sap Rivers, is the capital of Cambodia 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
- Type: Abandoned locality
- Description: Mass grave of the victims of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
- Category: Killing Fields
- Location: Kandal Province, Cambodia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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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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