Sisophon is the provincial capital of Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia

Cambodia

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. The city separates Cambodia's National Highway 5

National Highway 5 (Cambodia)

National Highway 5 or National Road No.5 is one of the national highways of Cambodia. With a length of , it connects the capital of Phnom Penh with Thailand....

 and National Highway 6

National Highway 6 (Cambodia)

National Highway 6 or National Road No.6 is one of the national highways of Cambodia. At long, it connects the capital of Phnom Penh with Banteay Meanchey....

. Serei Saophoan is difficult to pronounce, so often the area is written transliterated as "Sisophon", even on Cambodian signs. Its population is 61,482 in the 1998 census, changing little to 61,631 in the 2008 census having been overtaken by Poipet

Poipet

Poipet is a Cambodian town on the Cambodia/Thailand border, in Ou Chrov district, Banteay Meanchey Province. It is a key crossing point between the two countries, and also extremely popular as a gambling destination as gambling is popular, but illegal in Thailand...

 in size.

About forty minutes from Sisophon there is a Khmer temple ruin called Banteay Chmar.

Like Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom, this area was inside Siam (Thailand) for over 500 years before it was taken over by the French and then returned to Cambodia.

See also

• Sisophon Province
  Sisophon Province
  Sisophon was a changwat of Thailand. In 1906 it was ceded to French Indochina. It is now part of Cambodia and known as Banteay Meanchey....
  
  
• Banteay Charm