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Kingdom of Kampuchea (1945)
Short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan, c. 1945 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kingdom of Kampuchea (Khmer: ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា; Japanese: カンボジア王国) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan, which existed from 9 March 1945 to 16 October 1945.
Quick Facts ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា (Khmer)カンボジア王国 (Japanese), Status ...
Kingdom of Kampuchea | |||||||||
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1945 | |||||||||
Cambodia in WWII with provinces lost to Thailand | |||||||||
Status | Puppet state of the Empire of Japan (until 15 August 1945) | ||||||||
Capital | Phnom Penh | ||||||||
Official languages | Japanese French Khmer | ||||||||
Religion | State Shinto Buddhism Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
Government | Absolute monarchy under Japanese occupation | ||||||||
Monarch | |||||||||
• 1945 | Norodom Sihanouk | ||||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1945 | Norodom Sihanouk | ||||||||
• 1945 | Sơn Ngọc Thành | ||||||||
Historical era | World War II | ||||||||
9 March 1945 | |||||||||
• Establishment | 13 March 1945 | ||||||||
15 August 1945 | |||||||||
16 October 1945 | |||||||||
Currency | French Indochinese piastre, Japanese military yen | ||||||||
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Today part of | Cambodia |
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