Cambodia - Unique Angkor Civilization. Area: 181,035 sq. Km. Population:11,426,223 Capital: Phnompenh. The heart of the country consists of a large central alluvial plain, drained by the Mekong river and including the Tônlé Sap (Great Lake). Mountains flank the plain in the northwest and southwest. Cambodia has a tropical monsoonal climate ideal for growing rice, the chief crop. Corn, vegetables, peanuts, tobacco, and sugar palm are also grown. The fabulous ancient temples of Angkor, empty beaches, mighty rivers, remote forests ... and only a handful of tourists. But the word is out - Cambodia has emerged from the decades of war and isolation that made it a byword for atrocities, refugees, poverty and political instability. Those magical Angkor temples are drawing gaping travellers by the busload once more, and Cambodia is well and truly back on the South-East Asian travel map.