Several Cambodian cities are known or suspected to have started out as Chinese settlements.
Their biggest encampment, Site 2, with more than 130,000 people, is the second-largest Cambodian city after Phnom Penh.
For a time in 1979 and 1980 it was the most populous Cambodian city on earth, far surpassing the then reawakening but still tiny Phnom Penh.
As the newest Cambodian city, Sihanoukville doesn't have a long history like Phnom Penh or Siem Reap.
The specific epithet kampotiana refers to the Cambodian city of Kampot, close to which the first specimens of this species were collected.
As a result, Cambodian cities were being modernized even as Cambodia's natural resources were being plundered.
The Siamese took various Cambodian cities and drove Narairaja out of the throne.
Cambodian cities have a much lower volume of automobile traffic than Thai cities, and tuk-tuks are still the most common form of urban transport.
Throughout 1974 and into 1975 the United States maintained a major airlift of supplies to the besieged Cambodian city of Phnom Penh.
The nearest Cambodian city is Koh Kong.