Angkor (lit. capital city), also known as Yasodharapura (Sanskrit: यशोधरपुर) was the capital city of the Khmer Empire (Cambodia). The city and empire flourished from approximately the 9th to the 15th centuries. The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the Angkor Wat, said to be the world’s largest single religious monument.
