Place
Battambang province
ខេត្តបាត់ដំបង
Battambang province (ខេត្តបាត់ដំបង) is a province in northwestern Cambodia, between the Tonle Sap lake and the border with Thailand.[1][2] Its capital is the city of Battambang.[1]
Geography
The province borders Banteay Meanchey to the north, Pailin and Thailand to the west, Siem Reap province and the Tonle Sap lake to the east, and Pursat to the south.[2] Into Cambodia gives its area as 11,631 square kilometers (4,491 square miles). The province lies 291 kilometers (181 miles) from Phnom Penh by National Roads 5 and 6.[1] The province has long been called Cambodia's "rice bowl".[3]
A first estimate by the provincial environment department, reported in 2019, put the number of hills and mountains in the province at no fewer than 300. The largest ranges are in Samlout district.[4] One of them, Phnom Sampeau, is a hill about 100 meters (330 feet) high in Phnom Sampov commune, Banan district.[1] On the Tonle Sap lake, the flooded forests of Prek Toal were designated a Ramsar Site in October 2015.[5]
Into Cambodia counts 13 districts and one municipality, the city of Battambang. Two international border checkpoints with Thailand are in the province: Daung in Kamrieng district and Phnom Dey in Sampov Loun district.[1]
People
The provisional count of the 2019 census found 987,400 people in the province, 6.5 percent of the people of Cambodia, against 1,025,174 in 2008. Battambang was one of the provinces where the population had begun to fall.[6]
History
Siam held Battambang from 1795 until 1907.[1][7] Cambodia was then a French protectorate. Under a treaty between France and Siam of March 23, 1907, Siam ceded the provinces of Battambang, Sisophon and Siem Reap to Cambodia in return for Trat and the territory of Dan Sai.[1][7] After the Franco-Thai War of 1941, Thailand again held the province, as Phra Tabong, until it returned to Cambodia in 1946.[1][8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Into Cambodia, Battambang Province (undated)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thmey Thmey, Battambang has more than 100 tourist sites (September 12, 2021; in Khmer)
- ↑ Cambodianess, Wonders of Cambodia, Battambang City Guide for Culture Lovers: Cambodia's Creative Second City (2026)
- ↑ Koh Santepheap, Battambang is full of mountains (January 24, 2019; in Khmer)
- ↑ Wildlife Conservation Society, Success of Local Nest Protection Sparks Hope for Worldwide Conservation of Globally Endangered Greater Adjutant (July 27, 2017)
- ↑ National Institute of Statistics, Provisional Population Census 2019 (2019)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lawrence Palmer Briggs, The Treaty of March 23, 1907 between France and Siam and the Return of Battambang and Angkor to Cambodia, The Far Eastern Quarterly (1946)
- ↑ Into Cambodia, Siem Reap Province (undated)