Category Cambodia Japan South Korea Chin

Geography

Location Southeastern Eastern Asia, south of north Easter

Asia, bordering island chain Korea borde
the Gulf of between the China
Thailand, North Pacific Bay, Y
between Ocean and and S
Thailand, the Sea of Sea, b
Vietnam, and Japan, east Korea
Laos of the Korean
13 00 N, 105 Peninsula
00 E

Area total: 181,040 sq 377,835 sq 98,480 95969

km km
land: 176,520 sq
km
water: 4,520 sq
km

Climate Tropical; rainy, varies from temperate extrem

monsoon season tropical in tropic
(May to south to cool subarc
November); dry temperate in
season north
(December to
April); little
seasonal
temperature
variation.

Terrain Mostly low, flat mostly mostly hills and mostly

plains; rugged and mountains, wide high p
mountains in mountainous coastal plains desert
southwest and plains
north. hills in

Natural Resources Oil and gas, negligible coal tungsten coal, i

timber, mineral graphite, petrol
gemstones, resources, molybdenum, gas, m
 some iron ore, fish lead, hydro-power tungs
manganese, potential mang
phosphates, molyb
hydropower vanad
potential magn
alumin
zinc, u
hydro
poten
larges

Land Use Arable land: arable land: arable- 16.58 arable

20.44% 11.64% perma
permanent perm crops-2.01 1.27%
crops: 0.59% permanent other:
other: 78.97% crops: 0.9% other 81.4 (2005
(2005).
other:
87.46%

People

Population 13,995,904 127,433,494 49,044,790 13218

Age Structure 0-14 years: 34% 127,433,494 0-14 years: 18.3% 0-14 y
(male 1 (male (male
2,405,561/femal 5-64 years: 4,714,103/female 143,5
e 2,355,404) 65.2% 4,262,873) 126,6
15-64 years: 65 years and
62.4% (male over: 21% 15-64 years: 15-64
4,234,701/femal 72.1% (male (male
e 4,500,994) 18,004,719/femal 487,0
65 years and e 17,346,594) 460,5
over: 3.6% (male
189,090/female 65 years and 65 yea
310,154) (2007 over: 9.6% (male 7.9%
est.) 1,921,803/female 49,68
2,794,698) (2007 54,35
est.)
Median Age total: 21.3 years total: 43.5 total: 35.8 years 33.2
male: 20.6 years years
female: 22.1 male: 34.8 years
years (2007 est.) male: 41.7
years female: 36.8
years
female: 45.3
years

Religion Theravada observe both Daoist

Buddhist 95%, Shinto and Christ
other 5% Buddhist Christian 26.3%
84%, other (Protestant 19.7%,
16% Roman Catholic
6.6%), Buddhist
23.2%, other or
unknown 1.3%,
none 49.3%

Language Khmer (official) Japanese Korean, English Stand

95%, French, widely taught in or Ma
English junior high and (Puton
high school on the
dialec

Government

Government Type multiparty constitutional republic Comm

democracy monarchy
under a with a
constitutional parliamentar
monarchy y
government

Suffrage 18 years of age; 20 years of 19 years universal 18 yea

universal age;
universal

Economy

GDP Per Capita $2,800 (2006 $33,100 $24,500 $7,80

est.)
Labor force by agriculture: 75% agriculture: Agriculture- 6.4% agricu
Occupation industry: NA% 4.6% indust
services: NA% industry- 26.4 servic
(2004 est.) industry: (2005
27.8% services-67.2

services:
67.7%

Unemployment 2.5% (2000 est.) 4.1% 3.3% 4.2%

Rate regist
unem
urban
2005;
unem
under
in rura
(2005

Population Below 35% (2004) NA% 15% 10%

Poverty Line

Communicatio
n

Telephones-Main 32,800 (2006) 55.155 26.866 million 368 m

Lines in use million

Telephones- 1.14 million 101.7 million 40.197 million 461.1

Mobile Cellular (2006)

Internet Users 44,000 (2005) 87.54 million 34.12 million 137 m

Transportation

Airports 17 (2007) 176 105 467

Railways total: 602 km 23,474 km 3,472 75,43

narrow gauge:
602 km 1.000-m
gauge (2006)

Roadways total: 38,257 km 1.183 million 100, 279 1,870

 paved: 2,406 km km
unpaved: 35,851
km (2004)

Waterways 2,400 km 1,770 km 1608 124,0

(mainly on naviga
Mekong River)
(2005)