Khmer Krom region

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The Khmer Krom region is a historically Khmer-inhabited area in today’s southern Vietnam, particularly the Mekong Delta, known for its longstanding cultural and political significance to the Khmer people.

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Label Occurrences
Khmer Krom region canonical 1
southwestern Cambodia 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Khmer-inhabited area
cultural region
historical region
associatedWithEthnicGroup Khmer Krom
borderedBy Gulf of Thailand
contains Khmer Buddhist temples
linked to: Khmer architecture

Theravada Buddhist monasteries
culturalHeritage Khmer New Year celebrations
Khmer pagoda architecture
Khmer traditional dance
Ok Om Bok festival
currentControl Socialist Republic of Vietnam
currentOfficialLanguage Vietnamese language
linked to: Vietnamese
demographicCharacteristic significant Khmer minority population
demographicTrend increasing Vietnamese majority
disputedIn Khmer nationalist narratives
ethnoLinguisticGroup Khmer Krom people
linked to: Khmer Krom
hasCulturalSignificanceFor Khmer people
hasHumanRightsIssuesReportedBy international NGOs
hasIssue contested historical narratives between Khmer and Vietnamese historiography
hasMinorityCommunity Khmer Krom minority in Vietnam
hasPoliticalSignificanceFor Khmer people
historicalControl French colonial authorities
Nguyen lords of Vietnam
linked to: Nguyễn lords

Republic of Vietnam
historicallyInhabitedBy Khmer people
historicallyLinkedTo Cambodia
historicalNameUsedByKhmer Kampuchea Krom
historicalProcess Vietnamization policies
colonial administration under French Indochina
knownFor Khmer cultural festivals
Mekong Delta wetlands
linked to: Mekong Delta

Theravada Buddhist practices
rice cultivation
languageShift from Khmer to Vietnamese in public life
locatedIn Mekong Delta
Southeast Asia
southern Vietnam
partlyOverlapsWith Vietnamese administrative region of the Mekong Delta
partOf lower Mekong basin
linked to: Mekong Delta

territory historically associated with the Khmer Empire
presentDayCountry Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam
religionMajority Theravada Buddhism
linked to: Theravada
subjectOf Khmer Krom autonomy movements
Khmer Krom cultural preservation efforts
traditionalEconomy fishing
wet-rice agriculture
traditionalLanguage Khmer language

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Pearic geographicDistribution southwestern Cambodia
linked to: Khmer Krom region