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The city of Luang Prabang

The city of Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang is a city in northern Laos, the current capital of Luang Prabang Province. Luang Prabang was formally the royal capital of Lan Xang (Kingdom of a Million Elephants) from the 14th century to 1946. The effective capital was Vientiane from 1563, then, after the separation of the Kingdom of Luang Prabang and the Kingdom of Vientiane in 1707, the title of capital of Lan Xang was disputed between the two cities.

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Kingdom of Pnom Penh

Kingdom of Pnom Penh

Phnom Penh (Khmer: Krong Phnom Penh) is the capital of Cambodia, located in the southern half of the country, at the confluence of the Tonlé Sap and Mekong rivers. One million five hundred thousand Phnompenhois live on the 290 km² territory of the Phnom Penh municipality.

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