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 Thailan ...

by Cambodians; see * * Khmer people, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong **

Khmer Americans Cambodian Americans,; also Khmer Americans, are Americans of Cambodian or Khmer ancestry. In addition, Cambodian Americans are also Americans with ancestry of other ethnic groups of Cambodia, such as the Chams and Chinese Cambodians. Accordi ...

, Americans of Khmer (Cambodian) ancestry ** Khmer Krom, 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, ethnic Khmer people of Northeast Thailand *

Khmer (Unicode block) Khmer is a Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typic ...

, a block of Unicode characters of the Khmer script *

Khmer architecture Khmer architecture ( km, ស្ថាបត្យកម្មខ្មែរ), also known as Angkorian architecture ( km, ស្ថាបត្យកម្មសម័យអង្គរ), is the architecture produced by the Khmers during the A ...

, 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 language spoken by the Khmer people, and the official and national language of Cambodia. Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, throug ...

, the language of the Khmers, also the official and national language of Cambodia ** Khmer Khe dialect, a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia **

Northern Khmer dialect Northern Khmer (; km, ខ្មែរខាងជើង), also called Surin Khmer ( km, ខ្មែរសុរិន្ទ, link=no), is the dialect of the Khmer language spoken by approximately 1.4 million Khmers native to the Thai provinc ...

, 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 Khmer nationalism (or Cambodian nationalism); is a form of nationalism found in Cambodia, which asserts that Khmers (Cambodians) are a nation and that promotes the cultural unity of the Khmer (Cambodian) race. "Young Monks" Movement Another di ...

, a form of nationalism founded in Cambodia * Khmer Republic, 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 General Sak Sutsakhan ( km, សក់ ស៊ុតសាខន; 8 February 1928Some sources give 2 August. – 29 April 1994) was a Cambodian politician and soldier who had a long career in the country's politics. He was the last Head of State of ...

Khmer script Khmer script ( km, អក្សរខ្មែរ, )Huffman, Franklin. 1970. ''Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader''. Yale University Press. . is an abugida (alphasyllabary) script used to write the Khmer language, the official la ...

, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages *

Khmer Serei The Khmer Serei ( km, ខ្មែរសេរី ; "Free Khmer") were an anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh. In 1959, he published 'The Manifesto of the Khmer Serei' claiming that ...

, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist

Son Ngoc Thanh Sơn Ngọc Thành ( km, សឺង ង៉ុកថាញ់; 7 December 1908 – 8 August 1977) was a Cambodian nationalist and republican politician, with a long history as a rebel and (for brief periods) a government minister. Early li ...

*Political terms coined by Norodom Sihanouk based on the word 'Khmer': **

Khmer Bleu The Sangkum Reastr Niyum ( km, សង្គមរាស្ត្រនិយម, , ;Headly, Robert K.; Chhor, Kylin; Lim, Lam Kheng; Kheang, Lim Hak; Chun, Chen. 1977. ''Cambodian-English Dictionary''. Bureau of Special Research in Modern Langu ...

, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right ** Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian Communist political group and guerrilla movement **

Khmer Việt Minh The Việt Minh (; abbreviated from , chữ Nôm and Hán tự: ; french: Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam, ) was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1941. Also known as the Việt Minh Fron ...

, Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference

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* ''Khmer'' (album), a 1997 jazz album by Nils Petter Molvær *

Khmer (food) Khmer is the traditional dish of Bareg, native to Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders ...

, 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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