ABSTRACT
Administratively, the Cambodian territory is divided into Provinces ( Khaett ) and the Municipality of Phnom Penh, the capital city. Provinces are further divided into rural Districts ( Sruk ) and Cities ( Krung ), whereas Phnom Penh is divided into Khann . The most recent source of demographic data, the 2013 Inter-Census Population Survey (National Institute of Statistics 2013; 2013 ICPS thereafter) shows that Cambodia’s 14.7 million people still reside predominantly in the rural districts. Growing though it is, the share of the urban population only reached 21.4 percent in 2013, up from 19.5 percent in 2008, the year of the latest General Population Census (National Institute of Statistics 2009; 2008 GPC thereafter). Meanwhile, the urban population is dominated by the Municipality of Phnom Penh, where more people live than in all other cities combined (1.7 million vs. 1.5 million).
