Mondulkiri Province

Mondulkiri មណ្ឌលគិរី
Province
Tourists at Bou Sra Watterfaw.
Map o Cambodie heichlichtin Mondulkiri
Coordinates: 12°27′N 107°14′E
Kintra	Cambodie
Caipital	Sen Monorom
Area
• Total	14288 km2 (5,517 sq mi)
Population  (2008)
• Total	60,811
• Density	4.3/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+07
Dialin code	+855
ISO 3166 code	KH-11
Destricts	5
Communes	21
Veelages	98

Mondulkiri (Khmer: មណ្ឌលគិរី, IPA: [mɔn ˌdɔːl ki ˈriː] literally: "Muntain o the Mandala.") is a province (khaet) o Cambodie. Bordering the provinces o Kratie tae the wast, Stung Treng tae the northwast, Ratanakiri tae the north an the kintra o Vietnam tae the east an sooth, it is the maist spairsely populatit province in the kintra despite being the lairgest in land aurie. The caipital is the toun o Senmonorom.

Geografie an environment

Dense forests of Mondulkiri Province.

Mondulkiri is kent for its forestit hills an pouerful watterfaws. Some watterfaws include:

• Bou Sra Watterfaw. Locatit at Pich Chinda Destrict, 43 kilometers frae Senmonorom toun, Bou Sra is the lairgest watterfaw, made famous bi a popular Khmer sang in Mondulkiri.
• Senmonorom Watterfaw. Five kilometers frae toun an an easy walk, Senmonorom watterfaw is no hintle tae leuk at an uised tae be a nice picnic spot till the construction o a Japanese built hydro electric pouer station that cut the flow o watter.
• Romnea Watterfaw. Ten kilometers frae Senmonorom, Romnea watterfaw is actually 1 o 3 lairge watterfaws that haes nou been deforestit an privatisit.

Mondulkiri faces a significant threat frae illegal loggers attemptin tae exploit the aurie's virgin forests.

Destricts

The province is subdividit intae 5 destricts, which are further subdivided into 21 communes and 98 villages.

• 1101 Keo Seima -​ កែវសីម៉ា
• 1102 Kaoh Neak -​ កោះញែក
• 1103 O Reang -​ អូររាំង
• 1104 Pech Chenda -​ ពេជ្រាដា
• 1105 Senmonorom -​ សែនមនោរម្យ

Demografics

Aichty percent o Mondulkiri's population is made up o ten tribal minorities, wi the majority o them being Pnong. The remainin 20 percent are Khmer, Cheenese, an Muslims Cham.

Economy an transportation

The population lives aff the land, plantin rice, fruit trees, an a variety o vegetables. Ithers grow strawberries, coffee, rubber, an cashew nuts.

Road development continues tae impact seriously on indigenous commonties like the Pnong ethnic group. Accordin tae a Unitit Naitions paper, the construction o a road frae Mondulkiri tae Ratanakiri haes resultit in massive land grabbin.

Cultur

Although mair an mair hooses are built in 'Khmer style', traditional Phnong hooses can still be foond. Pnong hooses contain lairge jars (which are said tae be mair nor a thoosan year auld) an traditional gongs. Thare are various gongs uised at different occasions. Jars an gongs are amang the maist valuable possessions o indigenous commonties baith in traditional an spiritual as well as material terms. Durin the times o Pol Pot those objects wur buriet in hidden places in the jungle an in mony cases they still wait in the grund.