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The Khmer Krom people are considered as the Indigenous people of Southern Vietnam and having the oldest extant recorded history of inhabiting in the region. In Vietnam, they are recognized as one of Vietnam's fifty-three ethnic minorities .
Significant populations of Khmers reside in adjacent areas of Thailand ( Northern Khmer) and the Mekong Delta region of neighboring Vietnam ( Khmer Krom ), while there are over one million Khmers in the Khmer diaspora living mainly in France, the United States, and Australia.
- 45,700 [6] (2016)
- 80,000 [5]
- 38,490 [7] [ failed verification]
- 30,113 [2]
Dec 29, 2015 · (VOVworld) – Vietnam has 1.3 million Khmer people living in the southern provinces of Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Kien Giang, An Giang, Bac Lieu, Can Tho, and Vinh Long. The Khmer do farm work, fish, and produce handicraft products.
May 10, 2017 · The Khmer ethnic group of Vietnam people residing in the Mekong Delta concentrated in the southeastern provinces such as Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, An Giang, Kien Giang with a population of about 1.3 million people (2009). The Khmer language has the origin from the Mon-Khmer linguistic group.
They are one of the largest minorities in Vietnam, numbering over 1.26 million, and are the remnants of the society that existed prior to the take-over of the Mekong delta by the Vietnamese in the eighteenth century.
Mar 12, 2013 · The Khmer Empire was a powerful state in South East Asia, formed by people of the same name, lasting from 802 CE to 1431 CE. At its peak, the empire covered much of what today is Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and southern Vietnam.
The KHMER have about 1,112,286 inhabitants concentrating in the provinces of Soc Trang1, Bac Lieu2, Vinh Long3, Tra Vinh4, Can Tho5, Kien Giang6 and An Giang7. They are also called the Khmer-origin Vietnamese and Khmer Krom. The KHMER have lived in the Mekong Delta for a long time.
