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Phnom Penh

or Pnom Penh, Pnom-penh, Pnom·penh

[ nom pen, puh-nawm pen ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Cambodia, in the S part.


Phnom Penh

/ ˌpnɒm ˈpɛn /

noun

  1. the capital of Cambodia, a port in the south at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap Rivers: capital of the country since 1865; university (1960). Pop: 1 174 000 (2005 est) Official transliterationPhnum Péhn


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Example Sentences

She is back sewing at a factory in Phnom Penh, the capital, but earns less due to reduced orders, she says, and is concerned she’ll lose her home if she continues to default on her repayments.

From Time

One of the four relics to be returned — a prehistoric bell — probably belongs to a set of 12 that had been looted from a province north of the capital, Phnom Penh, experts say.

The family lives in Kandal province, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, and Sovann, 39, cares for the girls by herself with her income from Yi Da, where she started working about five years ago.

From Quartz

Jews—if you are from Phnom Penh, you may not know this—are forbidden to eat leavened bread on Passover.

The signs of such corruption are visible all over Phnom Penh.

Chicagoan Bill Smith discovered Chen three years ago when she was scavenging for survival in Phnom Penh's toxic garbage dumps.

The city dump in Phnom Penh was the foulest 100 acres in Cambodia.

Her mother put her on a plane to Paris to spare her from the genocide spilling up to their doorstep in Phnom Penh.

Within the precincts of the palace at Phnom Penh is a modest building where they still guard the sword of Indra.

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