State · 1953 – 1970
Kingdom of Cambodia
A state of 1953 – 1970 — 17 years in East and Southeast Asia. It followed French Protectorate of Cambodia. It was followed by Khmer Republic. Its line of rulers holds 17 people, 9 with dated terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 17 years
- 1953 – 1970
- Rulers
- 17
- the King of Cambodia
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- French Protectorate of Cambodia · follows
After it
- Khmer Republic · followed by · 1970 – 1975
Rulers
The line of King of Cambodia.
11 terms are shared from [object Object].
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norodom Sihanouk | 1941 – 1955 | 14 years | abdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Norodom Suramarit | 1955 – 1960 | 5 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | parent |
| Pho Proeung · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1960 – 1961 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Penn Nouth · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1961 – 1961 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Norodom Sihanouk · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1961 – 1962 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1962 – 1962 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Nhiek Tioulong · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1962 – 1962 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Norodom Kantol · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1962 – 1966 | 4 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Lon Nol · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1966 – 1967 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Son Sann · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1967 – 1968 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Penn Nouth · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1968 – 1969 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Lon Nol · from the line of Khmer Republic | 1969 – 1971 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
17 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1941 – 1971. Only 30 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 11 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.68, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedRoyal arms of Cambodia · Public domain 
flag, undatedFlag of Cambodia · Public domain
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood17 years
stood longer than 21% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record17
has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 12 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Demographic-structural breakdown
Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — handovers 11; shortReigns 8
- a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warOngoing
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1943 – 1980, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1962, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2638486 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.