Panchronia

People's Republic of Kampuchea

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1979 – 1989 · up to 184 thousand km² · Asia

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Capital: Phnom Penh

The People's Republic of Kampuchea was a partially recognised state in Southeast Asia which existed from 1979 to 1992. It was a satellite state of Vietnam, founded in Cambodia by the Vietnamese-backed Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, a group of Cambodian communists who were dissatisfied with the Khmer Rouge due to its oppressive rule and defected from it after the overthrow of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot's government. Brought about by an invasion from Vietnam, which routed the Khmer Rouge armies, it had Vietnam and the Soviet Union as its main allies.

Predecessors: Democratic Kampuchea

Successors: United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia