Polity · 800 CE – 1867 CE
Khmer Empire
អាណាចក្រខ្មែរ
- Peak recorded area
- 953,197 km²
- 1206 CE
- Data series
- 9
- 1292 CE–1292 CE
Overview
The Khmer Empire was an empire in mainland Southeast Asia, centered on hydraulic cities in what is now northern Cambodia. Known as Kambuja by its inhabitants, it grew out of the former civilization of Chenla and lasted from 802 to 1431 AD. Historians call this period of Cambodian history the Angkor period, after the empire's most well-known capital, Angkor. The Khmer Empire ruled or vassalised most of Mainland Southeast Asia and stretched as far north as southern China.
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Territory
28 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 1867 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
People
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Community Size | 8ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Intensity | 5ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Agriculture | 5ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Fishing | 2ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Gathering | 1ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Hunting | 0ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Husbandry | 3ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Governance
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Jurisdictional Hierarchy | 5ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Development
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Class Stratification | 5ordinal1292 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Khmer, Sanskrit
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
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Khmer Empire is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.