SE Asia
Cambodia
Mekong Lowlands & Central Plains

Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh, 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.
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  • Type: City with 2,010,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Cambodia
  • Also known as: “Krong Chaktomuk”, “Nam Van”, “Nam-Vang”, “Phnom Pen”, and “Ville de Phnom Penh”
Photo: Milei.vencel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Luca Nebuloni, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal Palace and National Museum of Cambodia.

Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
The of Cambodia is a complex of buildings which serves as the official royal residence of the King of Cambodia. Its full name in Khmer is the Preah Barom Reacheaveang Chaktomuk Serey Mongkol.

Museum
Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is 's largest museum of cultural history and is the country's leading historical and archaeological museum. It is located in Chey Chumneas, Phnom Penh.

Stadium
Photo: Khmer Scholar, CC BY 2.0.
The National is a multi-purpose stadium in Phnom Penh, . It has a capacity of 50,000. Despite its name, the stadium has never hosted an Olympic Games.

Phnom Penh

Latitude
11.5683° or 11° 34′ 6″ north
Longitude
104.9224° or 104° 55′ 21″ east
Population
2,010,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
PNH
United Nations Location Code
KH PNH
Open location code
7P36HW9C+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 560229438
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1821306
Wiki­data ID
Q1850
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Phnom Penh” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Achinese: “Phnom Pènh”
  • Afrikaans: “Phnom Penh”
  • Albanian: “Fnom Pen”
  • Albanian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Amharic: “ፕኖም ፔን”
  • Angika: “नामपेन्ह”
  • Arabic: “بنوم بنه”
  • Aragonese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Armenian: “Պնոմպեն”
  • Arpitan: “Phnom Penh”
  • Asturian: “Pnom Penh”
  • Awadhi: “नामपेन्ह”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pnompen”
  • Balinese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Banjar: “Phnum Pény”
  • Bashkir: “Пномпень”
  • Basque: “Phnom Penh”
  • Belarusian: “Пнампень”
  • Belarusian: “Пнампэнь”
  • Bengali: “নম পেন”
  • Bengali: “নমপেন”
  • Bengali: “প্‌নম পেন”
  • Betawi: “Penom Pèn”
  • Bosnian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Breton: “Phnom Penh”
  • Bulgarian: “Пном Пен”
  • Bulgarian: “Пномпен”
  • Burmese: “ဖနွမ်းပင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Phnom Penh”
  • Cebuano: “Phnom Penh (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Phnom Penh”
  • Central Bikol: “Phnom Penh”
  • Central Kurdish: “پنۆم پێن”
  • Chechen: “Пномпень”
  • Chinese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Chinese: “金边”
  • Chinese: “金邊”
  • Cornish: “Phnom Penh”
  • Croatian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Czech: “Phnompenh”
  • Danish: “Phnom Penh”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Phnom Penh”
  • Dutch: “Phnom Penh”
  • Dutch: “Phnom-Penh”
  • Dutch: “Pnom Penh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بنوم بنه”
  • Esperanto: “Pnom-Peno”
  • Esperanto: “Pnompeno”
  • Estonian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Phnom Penh”
  • Finnish: “Phnom Penh”
  • French: “Phnom Penh”
  • Galician: “Phnom Penh”
  • Georgian: “პნომპენი”
  • German: “Phnom Penh”
  • Greek: “Πνομ Πεν”
  • Greek: “Πνομ Πενχ”
  • Guarani: “Nom Pen”
  • Gujarati: “પનામ પેન્હ”
  • Haitian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Hausa: “Phnom Penh”
  • Hebrew: “פנום פן”
  • Hindi: “नामपेन्ह”
  • Hindi: “नॉम पेन्ह”
  • Hindi: “फ्नोम पेन्ह”
  • Hungarian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Hungarian: “Phnompen”
  • Iban: “Phnom Penh”
  • Icelandic: “Phnom Penh”
  • Ido: “Phnom Penh”
  • Iloko: “Phnom Penh”
  • Indonesian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Interlingua: “Phnom Penh”
  • Interlingue: “Phnom Penh”
  • Irish: “Phnom Penh”
  • Italian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Japanese: “プノンペン”
  • Japanese: “プノンペン都”
  • Japanese: “ペンの丘”
  • Kannada: “ನೋಮ್ ಫೆನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪನೋಮ್ ಪೆನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ನೊಮ್ ಪೆನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pnompen”
  • Kazakh: “Пномпень қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Пномпень”
  • Khmer: “Phnum Pénh”
  • Khmer: “ភ្នំកំពង់ត្រាច”
  • Khmer: “ភ្នំពេញ”
  • Kirghiz: “Пномпень”
  • Korean: “프놈펜”
  • Lao: “ພະນົມເປນ”
  • Lao: “ພະນົມເປັນ”
  • Latin: “Phnom Penh”
  • Latvian: “Pnompeņa”
  • Ligurian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Literary Chinese: “金邊”
  • Lithuanian: “Pnompenis”
  • Livvi: “Pnompen’”
  • Lombard: “Phnom Penh”
  • Luxembourgish: “Phnom Penh”
  • Macedonian: “Пном Пен”
  • Macedonian: “Пномпен”
  • Maithili: “पेनोम पेन्ह”
  • Malagasy: “Phnom Penh”
  • Malay: “Phnom Penh”
  • Malayalam: “നോം പെൻ”
  • Maltese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Marathi: “पनॉम पेन”
  • Mazanderani: “پنوم پن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Minangkabau: “Phnom Penh”
  • Mingrelian: “პნომპენი”
  • Moksha: “Пномпэн”
  • Mongolian: “Пномпень”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پنوم پين”
  • N'Ko: “ߔߏߣߏ߲ ߔߍ߲”
  • Nauru: “Phnom Penh”
  • Navajo: “Hókʼą́ągi Kin Heetsʼózí”
  • Nepali: “पेनोम पेन्ह”
  • Northern Frisian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Northern Luri: “پنوم پن”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Phnom Penh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Phnom Penh”
  • Norwegian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Novial: “Phnom Penh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Phnom Penh”
  • Ossetian: “Пномпень”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻဖနွင်းပဉ်”
  • Pampanga: “Phnom Penh”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਨਾਮ ਪੈਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Phnom Penh”
  • Persian: “پنوم پن”
  • Persian: “پنوم‌پن”
  • Piemontese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Polish: “Phnom Penh”
  • Portuguese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Portuguese: “Pnom Pene”
  • Portuguese: “Pnom Penh”
  • Pushto: “پنوم پن”
  • Quechua: “Phnom Penh”
  • Romanian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пномпень”
  • Russian: “Пномпень”
  • Sakizaya: “Cinpyan”
  • Samogitian: “Pnuompenis”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱷᱮᱱᱚᱢ ᱯᱮᱱ”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱚᱢ ᱯᱮᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Scots: “Phnom Penh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Phnom Penh”
  • Serbian: “Пном Пен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Shona: “Phnom Penh”
  • Sicilian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Silesian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Sindhi: “پيهنوم پين”
  • Sinhala: “නොම් පෙන්”
  • Slovak: “Phnom Pénh”
  • Slovenian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Slovenian: “Pnompen”
  • Somali: “Phnom Penh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پنوم‌پن”
  • Spanish: “Nom Pen”
  • Spanish: “Phnom Penh”
  • Spanish: “Phon Phen”
  • Swahili: “Phnom Penh”
  • Swedish: “Phnom Penh”
  • Tagalog: “Nom Pen”
  • Tagalog: “Phnom Penh”
  • Tajik: “Пномпен”
  • Talysh: “Pnompen”
  • Tamil: “நோம் பென்”
  • Tamil: “பினோம் பென்ஹ”
  • Tamil: “புனோம் பென்”
  • Tatar: “Pnompen”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్నోం పెన్”
  • Thai: “พนมเปญ”
  • Thai: “พนมเปณ”
  • Tibetan: “ཕོམ་ཕེན།”
  • Turkish: “Phnom Penh”
  • Turkish: “Punom Pen”
  • Turkish: “Punon Pen”
  • Turkmen: “Fnom-Penh”
  • Udmurt: “Пномпень”
  • Uighur: “فنوم پېن”
  • Ukrainian: “Пномпень”
  • Urdu: “پنوم پن”
  • Uzbek: “Pnompen”
  • Venetian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Veps: “Pnompen‘”
  • Veps: “Pnompen’”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Vang”
  • Vietnamese: “Phnom Penh”
  • Vietnamese: “Phnôm Pênh”
  • Volapük: “Phnum Pénh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Phnom Penh”
  • Welsh: “Phnom Penh”
  • Western Frisian: “Phnom Penh”
  • Western Frisian: “Pnom Pen”
  • Western Panjabi: “فنوم پن”
  • Western Panjabi: “نوم پن”
  • Wu Chinese: “金边”
  • Yakut: “Пном Пэнь”
  • Yoruba: “Phnom Penh”
  • Yue Chinese: “金邊”
  • Zulu: “i-Phnom Penh”
  • “Phnom Penh”
  • “Pnuompenis”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Phnom Penh”. Photo: gusjer, CC BY 2.0.