The Bay of Kampong Som is a southern bay of

Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...

. Kampong Som has a deep water inshore and a chain of islands across the mouth which protect the bay from storms. Deforestation of

Indochina mangroves The Indochina mangroves are a large mangrove ecoregion on the coasts of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia in Southeast Asia. Location and description Mangrove forests occur on coasts that are regularly washed with saltwater by tidal movem ...

has become issues. Kompong Som is also the location of Dong Peng and

Sihanoukville Sihanoukville (, ), also known as Kampong Saom (, ) or Preah Sihanouk (, ), is a coastal city in Cambodia and the capital of Preah Sihanouk Province, at the tip of an elevated peninsula in the country's south-west on the Gulf of Thailand. T ...

with its

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (; , PAS) is a government agency and state corporation of Cambodia and Sihanoukville (city), Sihanoukville that operates and governs the country's sole deep water port. In Sihanoukville, on the Bay of Kampong Som ...

, the main and only deep-water maritime port of Cambodia.Ports in Cambodia
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