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Khmer(s) may refer to: The Khmer people (Khmer: ជនជាតិខ្មែរ, Chônchéatĕ Khmêr [cɔnciət kʰmae]) are an Austroasiatic ethnic group native to Cambodia. They comprise over 90% of Cambodia's population of 17 million. ("Khmer fell under Siamese or Thai dominion for over 400 years before Siam ceded Khmer to the French to govern, and the French then turned it over to Khmer before it changed its name to Cambodia, present day, receiving culture from Thailand in every aspect by the Khmer, unaware of it.")

Thai ceded cambodia to france

Cambodia

• Srok Khmer (lit. "Khmer land" or "Land of the Khmer(s)"), a colloquial exonym used to refer to Cambodia by Cambodians; see
• Khmer people, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong
  • Khmer Americans, Americans of Khmer (Cambodian) ancestry
  • Khmer Krom, Khmer people living in the Mekong Delta and Southeast Vietnam
  • Khmer Loeu, the Mon-Khmer highland tribes in Cambodia
  • Northern Khmer people, ethnic Khmer people of Northeast Thailand
• Khmer (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Khmer script
• Khmer architecture, the architecture of Cambodia
• Khmer cuisine, the dominant cuisine in Cambodia
• Khmer Empire, which ruled much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries
• Khmer Issarak, anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement formed in 1945
• Khmer language, the language of the Khmers, also the official and national language of Cambodia
  • Khmer Khe dialect, a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia
  • Northern Khmer dialect, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the ethnic Khmers in Northeast Thailand
  • Western Khmer dialect, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmers native to the Cardamom Mountains
• Khmer nationalism, a form of nationalism founded in Cambodia
• Khmer Republic, the official name of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975
• Khmer Sâ (White Khmer), a pro-US force formed by the Khmer Republic's defence minister Sak Sutsakhan
• Khmer script, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages
• Khmer Serei, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh
• Political terms coined by Norodom Sihanouk based on the word 'Khmer':
  • Khmer Bleu, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right
  • Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian Communist political group and guerrilla movement
  • Khmer Việt Minh, Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference

Other uses

• Khmer (album), a 1997 jazz album by Nils Petter Molvær
• Khmer (food), traditional dish native to Jizan, Saudi Arabia
• Khmer: The Lost Empire of Cambodia, a 1997 nonfiction book by Thierry Zéphir

See also

• All pages with titles containing Khmer
• Khemara (disambiguation)