Side by side
Cambodia and Vietnam 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.
802 — Jayavarman II declares himself chakravartin on Mount Mahendraparvata
- Shared indicators
- 43
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 4
- 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.
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Entangled histories
4 events 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.
- 1863 CE
French protectorate established
King Norodom signs a treaty placing Cambodia under French protection to fend off Siamese and Vietnamese pressure; Siam acknowledges the protectorate by 1867.
Colonisation · from the Cambodia chronicle · Decline, Foreign Pressure, and the French Protectorate · Norodom, Cambodia Gains Independence from France
- 17 October 1887
French Indochina established
France unites Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin, and Cambodia into the Indochinese Union; Laos is added in 1893, binding Vietnam into a colonial federation centered on Hanoi.
Colonisation · from the Vietnam chronicle · French Indochina · French Indochina / Conquest of Vietnam
- December 1978 - January 1979
Vietnamese intervention ends the regime
Vietnam invades Cambodia, captures Phnom Penh in January 1979, ousts the Khmer Rouge, and ends the genocide, beginning a decade-long occupation.
War & Rupture · from the Cambodia chronicle · War, Revolution, and Genocide · Cambodia: Vietnamese intervention, Cambodian genocide
- 1979 CE
Sino-Vietnamese War
China invades northern Vietnam in response to Vietnam's ousting of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; the brief but bloody border war deepens Vietnam's isolation.
War & Rupture · from the Vietnam chronicle · Doi Moi Reforms and Modern Vietnam · Vietnam