Little Phnom Penh

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Little Phnom Penh (or less often "Cambodia Town" or "Little Cambodia") is the unofficial name of the area along Anaheim Street between Alamitos and Junipero avenues in Long Beach, California. This area has numerous Cambodian restaurants, clothing stores, and jewelry stores. There are also many more general businesses in the area, such as auto repair shops, that are Cambodian-owned.

With approximately 50,000 Cambodians, Long Beach is home to the second largest population of Cambodian immigrants outside of Cambodia (after Paris), and the city has its own Cambodian consulate. The city also has an annual Cambodian New Year celebration. Many of the Cambodians came to the United States as refugees from the Maoist regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 (see The Killing Fields).

 

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