The presence of Angkor Wat has been remarkably stable across the various flags. It also makes the Cambodian flag on of the only four state flags to feature a building. The other are the flags of Portugal, San Marino and Spain.
The presence of Angkor Wat has been remarkably stable across the various flags. It also makes the Cambodian flag on of the only four state flags to feature a building. The other are the flags of Portugal, San Marino and Spain.
No, not really.
The Khmer Republic was a military dictatorship formed by a coup. For reference, this was the government that gave the U.S. permission to bomb Viet Cong troops within Cambodia (also resulting in the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of Cambodian civilians).
Democratic Kampuchea was Pol Pot’s government, with the killing fields and the wholesale murder of intellectuals.
Finally, the People’s Republic of Kampuchea was the government established by the Vietnamese Communists after an occupation, and the first time Cambodia could really be said to be Democratic.
After the People’s Republic fell, Cambodia is now a Constitutional Monarchy; obviously not perfect, but closer to a Great Britain than a Saudi Arabia.