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- Also called:
- Krong Chbar Mon
- Also spelled:
- Kâmpóng Spœ
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Kampong Speu
Cambodia
Also known as: Kompong Speu
Kampong Speu, town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies along the Tnaot River at the foot of the Dâmrei (“Elephant”) Mountains and astride a national highway linking Phnom Penh, the national capital, with Sihanoukville, the country’s principal seaport.
The surrounding area supports rice, sugarcane, palm trees, cotton, cassava, and corn (maize); there are also silk spinning, timber trade, and a major sugar refinery in the area. Various irrigation projects have improved the region’s agricultural potential, notably a series of dams on the Tnaot River, constructed in the early 1960s just west of Kampong Speu. The town was severely damaged in Cambodia’s civil war (1970–75). Pop. (2019) 50,359.
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