Side by side

Cambodia and Laos compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇰🇭Cambodia

802Jayavarman II declares himself chakravartin on Mount Mahendraparvata

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🇱🇦Laos

1353Fa Ngum is crowned king of Lan Xang

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Shared indicators
43
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. from the mid-14th century

    Theravada Buddhism established

    During Fa Ngum's reign Theravada Buddhism of the Sinhalese school is introduced into the Lao kingdom, likely from Cambodia, becoming the foundational religion of Laos.

    Religion · from the Laos chronicle · The Kingdom of Lan Xang · Fa Ngum, Lan Xang