The ancient city of Angkor, centered on Angkor Wat, is in Cambodia.
Angkor was the capital region of the Khmer Empire in what is now northwestern Cambodia. It flourished from roughly the ninth to the fifteenth centuries and contained temples, reservoirs, roads, and urban settlements. Angkor Wat, the best-known monument, was built in the early twelfth century under King Suryavarman II.
Angkor Wat was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu and later became a Buddhist temple. The wider archaeological area includes Bayon, famous for its serene carved faces, and Ta Prohm, whose structures are intertwined with living trees. These monuments are only part of a much larger engineered landscape.
Visitors sometimes use “Angkor Wat” to mean the entire ancient city, but the terms are not interchangeable. Angkor refers to the broader urban and political complex, while Angkor Wat is one temple within it. UNESCO listed Angkor as a World Heritage Site in 1992.