And last but not least in the “Getting To Know All About You” series, we have…
Cambodia
- It is bordered by Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- Phnom Penh is the capital.
- It is slightly smaller than Oklahoma.
- 90% of Cambodians are Khmer, while 5% are Vietnamese, 1% are Chinese, and 4% are considered different ethnic groups.
- The official language is Khmer and is spoken by 97% of Cambodians.
- The official religion is Buddhism. Only 2% are Muslim and less than 1% (0.4% to be more specific) of the population is Christian.
- The population is 15,458,332.
- To put the percentage of Christians into perspective, that means that only around 62,000 people in Cambodia are Christian.
- Approximately 92% of the population is under the age of 54.
- The median age is 24.
- 29% of the child population is underweight.
- As of the 2001 estimate, 39% of the child population between the ages of 5 and 14 was involved in some form of child labor. That is approximately 1.5 million children.
- Cambodia is a major source of human trafficking, both labor and sex trafficking.
- Over 30 years ago, at least 1.5 million Cambodians did under the Khmer Rouge regime at the hands of Pol Pot. They are still recovering today.
- It is home to Angkor Wat, a Hindu temple and monastery build during the Khmer empire in the 12th century. It is now a Buddhist complex.
