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Featured country<\/strong>: Cambodia<\/p>\n A constitutional monarchy officially known as the \u201cKingdom of Cambodia,\u201d Cambodia is located on the Indochina Peninsula, surrounded on three sides by Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand.\u00a0 Ninety-five per cent of the nearly 15 million people in the country follow Buddhism, though historically Cambodia was greatly influenced politically and culturally by Hinduism.\u00a0 In fact, the nation\u2019s most visited and revered monument of Angkor Wat was originally constructed by the Khmer king, Suryavarman II in the 12th<\/sup> century as a Hindu religious complex.\u00a0 Angkor Wat is\u00a0 the largest religious monument in the world, and is portrayed on the nation\u2019s flag.\u00a0 In the 20th<\/sup> century, Cambodia achieved independence in 1953 from France, which had colonized the country since the mid-19th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 After the Vietnam War, a devastating genocide of over 2 million people occurred from 1975-1979 by the Khmer Rouge.\u00a0 Taking decades to recover, today Cambodia is experiencing some of the strongest cultural and economic growth in Asia through tourism to its beautiful heritage sites, textiles and the garment industry, and agriculture.\u00a0 And currently, the University of Cincinnati has two Cambodian undergraduate students on campus.<\/p>\n Source<\/strong>: CultureGrams <\/a><\/p>\n Featured library resource<\/strong>: Foreign Information by<\/a> Country<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Angkor Wat<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Featured country: Cambodia A constitutional monarchy officially known as the \u201cKingdom of Cambodia,\u201d Cambodia is located on the Indochina Peninsula, surrounded on three sides by Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand.\u00a0 Ninety-five per cent of the nearly 15 million people in the … Continue reading ![\"angkor_wat\"](\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/angkor_wat-300x168.jpg\")