Cambodia Gazetteer

Cambodia geographical index in JSON format.

Structure of Data

• The provinces.json file is the list of all provinces in Cambodia.
• The provinces directory contain all detail data of each province.

Getting Province Detail Data

In file provinces.json:

...
{
    "id": "banteay_meanchey",
    "code": "01",
    "local": "ខេត្តបន្ទាយមានជ័យ",
    "english": "Banteay Meanchey Province",
    "number_of_district": "2",
    "number_of_commune": "7",
    "number_of_village": "0"
}
...

As you can see, there is an id field, you can use this field to get province detail.

Here are the URL example:

# Get list of provinces
curl '.../main/provinces.json'

# Get detail of a province with id 'banteay_meanchey'
curl '.../main/provinces/banteay_meanchey.json

Province Detail JSON Structure

[
    # First level is district ស្រុក, ក្រុង, ខណ្ឌ
    {
        "type": "ស្រុក",
        ...
        # Second level are the list of communes ឃុំ, សង្កាត់
        "communes": [
            {
                "type": "ឃុំ",
                ...
                # The third level are the list of village ភូមិ
                "villages": [
                    {
                        "type": "ភូមិ",
                        ...
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
]

Using GitHub to Serve JSON

You can use the GitHub raw file function to download JSON file so that you don't have to create your own API.

Example using cURL:

curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NorakGithub/cambodia-gazetteer/main/provinces.json'

References

• http://db.ncdd.gov.kh/gazetteer/view/index.castle

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