Foreign Embassies in Cambodia Road Distance Chart About Mekong River Travel by boat from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh Macromedia Flash Player is required to display the map. Map of Phnom Penh City with details including Embassies.

• Phnom Penh: situated on confluence of Tonley sap, Mekong, and Bassac river.
• City population: 1.2 million (government's UN sponsored census 2008)
• Popular tour sites: Royal palace, National Museum, Wat Phnom, Sisowat Street (called River-Front street, best time in the evening)
• Toul Sleng Museum and Cheung Ek Memorial: These places are memorial sites that reveal a grim and grisly evidence of mass tortures and executions committed by the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) whose main mission was to cleanse the society of middle-class and people belonging to pervious regime, Khmer Republic backed by the Americans (1970-1975).

Source and reference: Phnom Penh municipality (phnompenh.gov.kh), Ministry of Planning  Phnom Penh, National Institute of Statistics Phnom Penh, Time Almanac 2002, Encyclopedia Americana 2002, the World Book Encyclopedia 2002.