Phnom Tbeng Meanchey

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Tbeng Meanchey
ត្បែងមានជ័យ
Town
View of Koh Ker Temple 40 km west of Tbeng Meanchay
Tbeng Meanchey
Location of Tbeng Meanchey, Cambodia
Coordinates: 13°49′N 104°58′E / 13.817°N 104.967°E / 13.817; 104.967
Country  Cambodia
Province Preah Vihear
District Tbaeng Meanchey District
Government
  Type City municipality
Population (2009)
  Total 24,400
Time zone Cambodia (UTC+7)
Area code(s) 855 (064)

Tbeng Meanchey (or Tbaeng Meanchey) is a town, and capital of Preah Vihear Province in northern Cambodia. Phnom Tbeng Meanchay (or Phnom Tbeng Meanchey) is the mountain rising to 600 m 5 km south-west of Tbeng Meanchay town.

Sites

  • Koh Ker Home to almost 30 ancient structures, including Prasat Thom, an immense seven-tier pyramid, Koh Ker was briefly the capital of the Khmer Empire under king Jayavarman IV (928–42).
  • Noreay Temples, five 7th-century temples made of Sandstone, laterite and brick, 32 kilometres northeast of the town.
  • Phnom Pralean temple: a temple built to worship Brahmanism, on top of a 180 metres hill
  • Neak Buos temple 75 kilometres north of Tbaeng Meanchey
  • Krapum Chhouk temple: built in the 10th century in laterite and stone, 45 kilometres south of Tbaeng Meanchey
  • Kork Beng temple: a ruined laterite and sandstone temple built between 936 and 951 by a commander named Kork on the order of King Jayavarman IV.
  • Wat Peung Preah Ko: a place of worship in beautiful natural surroundings believed to possess strong supernatural powers

Coordinates: 13°49′N 104°58′E / 13.817°N 104.967°E / 13.817; 104.967

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