"Khom" redirects here. For writing system, see Khom script.
"Khum" redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Khum, Iran.
Administrative divisions of Cambodia have several levels. Cambodia is divided into 24 provinces (Khaet; Khmer: ខេត្ត) and the special administrative unit Phnom Penh. Though a different administrative unit, Phnom Penh is at province level, so de facto Cambodia has 25 provinces and municipalities.
Each province is divided into districts (Srok/Khan; ស្រុក/ខណ្ឌ) - as of 2010[update] there are 159 districts throughout the country’s provinces, and 12 are in Phnom Penh. Each province has one capital district (changed to "city/town", krong; ក្រុង, krŏng), e.g. for Siem Reap, it's Srok Siem Reap. The exceptions are the provinces of Banteay Meanchey, Kandal, Mondulkiri, Oddar Meanchey, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri, where the province and the capital district does not match.
A district of a province, which is called Srok (ស្រុក), is divided into "communes" (khum; ឃុំ). A commune is further divided into "villages" (ភូមិ, phum).
In Phnom Penh the districts are called khan (ខណ្ឌ), and their subdivisions sangkat (សង្កាត់) which are smaller in the other provinces.
Sangkat are further subdivided into phum, which are usually translated as villages, though they do not necessarily cover one single settlement.
In addition to these subdivisions, there are also cities and towns, which take over some of the responsibilities of the districts and communes on the area covered by the municipality. These all have an elected board and an elected mayor.
There are three different levels of municipalities (Khmer: ក្រុង):
krong (city): More than 50,000 citizens
krong (town): More than 10,000 citizens - or a provincial capital
In addition to the population numbers, the municipalities need to have enough tax revenues for the administration to be able to execute the offices of administrations.
Towns and cities are divided into sangkat (communes), which are equivalent to khum of rural areas.
For areas which do not reach the mandatory conditions, they exist another lower level of local administration. These usually cover a complete subdistrict (Khum), but may also cover more than one subdistrict or share a subdistrict with a municipality.
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