Khmer(s) may refer to:

Cambodia

*''Srok Khmer'' (lit. "Khmer land" or "Land of the Khmer(s)"), a colloquial exonym used to refer to

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...

by Cambodians; see * *

Khmer people The Khmer people ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរ, ) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Cambodia. They comprise over 90% of Cambodia's population of 17 million.

, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong ** Khmer Americans, Americans of Khmer (Cambodian) ancestry **

Khmer Krom The ''Khmer Krom'' ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរក្រោម, , , lit. 'Lower Khmers' or 'Southern Khmers'; vi, người Khơ-me Crộm, người Khmer Nam Bộ, người Khmer Việt Nam, người Việt gốc Miên (used before 19 ...

, Khmer people living in the Mekong Delta and Southeast Vietnam **

Khmer Loeu The Khmer Loeu ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរលើ ; "upper Khmers") is the collective name given to the various indigenous ethnic groups residing in the highlands of Cambodia. The Khmer Loeu are found mainly in the northeastern pro ...

, the Mon-Khmer highland tribes in Cambodia **

Northern Khmer people Northern Khmer people ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរខាងជើង; th, เขมรเหนือ) or colloquially as Thais of Khmer origin ( th, ชาวไทยเชื้อสายเขมร) is the designation used to r ...

, ethnic Khmer people of Northeast Thailand * Khmer (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Khmer script * Khmer architecture, the architecture of Cambodia *

Khmer cuisine Cambodian cuisine is an umbrella term for the cuisines of all ethnic groups in Cambodia, whereas Khmer cuisine ( km, សិល្បៈធ្វើម្ហូបខ្មែរ; ) refers specifically to the more than thousand years old culina ...

, the dominant cuisine in Cambodia * Khmer Empire, which ruled much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries *

Khmer Issarak The Khmer Issarak ( km, ខ្មែរឥស្សរៈ, or 'Independent Khmer') was a "loosely structured" anti- French and anti-colonial independence movement. The movement has been labelled as “amorphous”. The Issarak was ...

, anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement formed in 1945 *

Khmer language Khmer (; , ) is an Austroasiatic languages, Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people, and the Official language, official and national language of Cambodia. Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pāli, Pali, especiall ...

, the language of the Khmers, also the official and national language of Cambodia **

Khmer Khe dialect Khmer Khe (or Hakka Khmer; km, ខ្មែរខិ) is a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia. It has an estimated lexical similarity of between 95-96% with Central Khmer. Names Alternate names for Khmer Khe include Khme ...

, a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia ** Northern Khmer dialect, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the ethnic Khmers in Northeast Thailand **

Western Khmer dialect Western Khmer, also known as Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, is the dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmer people native to the Cardamom Mountains on both sides of the border between western Cambodia and eastern Central Thailand ( ...

, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmers native to the Cardamom Mountains * Khmer nationalism, a form of nationalism founded in Cambodia *

Khmer Republic The Khmer Republic ( km, សាធារណរដ្ឋខ្មែរ, ; french: République khmère) was a pro-United States military-led republican government of Cambodia that was formally declared on 9 October 1970. The Khmer Republic wa ...

, the official name of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975 *Khmer Sâ (White Khmer), a pro-US force formed by the Khmer Republic's defence minister Sak Sutsakhan * Khmer script, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages * Khmer Serei, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh *Political terms coined by

Norodom Sihanouk Norodom Sihanouk (; km, នរោត្តម សីហនុ, ; 31 October 192215 October 2012) was a Cambodian statesman, Sangkum and FUNCINPEC politician, Norodom Sihanouk filmography, film director, and composer who led Cambodia in vari ...

based on the word 'Khmer': ** Khmer Bleu, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right **

Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. ...

, a Cambodian Communist political group and guerrilla movement ** Khmer Việt Minh, Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference

Other uses

* ''Khmer'' (album), a 1997 jazz album by Nils Petter Molvær * Khmer (food), traditional dish native to Jizan, Saudi Arabia *'' Khmer: The Lost Empire of Cambodia'', a 1997 nonfiction book by Thierry Zéphir

Cambodia

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