Khmer people
The Khmer people are 97% of the people of Cambodia. They speak the Khmer language and most follow the Khmer style of Buddhism. There are over 15 million Khmers in Cambodia, and over a million Khmers in both Vietnam and Thailand.
Khmer People Media
Ancient Khmer script from the Chenla era.
Map of South-east Asia c. 900 AD, showing the Khmer Empire in red.
Angkor Wat in the 1900s.
Upper class Khmer ladies in the 1800s.
Cambodia, Pursat province, 1896, *an interpreter, his wife and their adoptive daughter.
Khmer dancers at Angkor Wat, 1920s.
Ordination of new monks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
