Kampong Siem district

Kampong Siem
ស្រុកកំពង់សៀម
City District
Kampong Siem is located in Cambodia
Kampong Siem
Kampong Siem
Location in Cambodia
Coordinates: 12°0′52″N 105°25′3″E / 12.01444°N 105.41750°E / 12.01444; 105.41750
Country Cambodia
ProvinceKampong Cham
Population
 (1998)[1]
 • Total99,056
Time zoneUTC+7 (ICT)
Geocode0306
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Kampong Siem (Khmer: កំពង់សៀម, lit. 'The Siam's Port') is a district (srok) located in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia. The district surrounds the provincial capital Kampong Cham City. The administrative center of the district locates not far from the Provincial capital of Kampong Cham in Ampil Leu Village, Ampil Commune about 3 km west from the center of Kampong Cham city on National Highway 7 and is 120 kilometres by road from Phnom Penh. The district borders on the western bank of the Mekong for most of its length.[2]

In February 2007 the United States Peace Corps sent 29 volunteers to live in Kampong Siem District.[3] This marked the beginning of the first ever Peace Corps mission in Cambodia.[4] During a nine-week stay in the district the group of volunteers from San Francisco studied the Khmer language, acclimatised themselves to the local way of life, tried eating deep fried tarantulas and began teaching English.[3]

  1. ^ General Population Census of Cambodia, 1998: Village Gazetteer. National Institute of Statistics. February 2000. pp. 40–42.
  2. ^ Total Road Atlas of Cambodia 2006 (3rd ed.). Total Cambodge. 2006. p. 44.
  3. ^ a b "U.S. Peace Corps starts first Cambodian mission". Reuters. Feb 5, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
  4. ^ "Decades Later, a Peaceful Invasion of Cambodia; Volunteers With U.S. Corps Adjust to a New Life Before Deployment to Countryside as Teachers". Washington Post. May 6, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-31.