Major conflict1978 – 1989 · 11 years

Vietnamese-Cambodian War

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Cambodia · Vietnam

Estimated casualties

500Ksingle estimate · no range published

Vietnamese invasion ending Khmer Rouge rule followed by eleven-year occupation, involving competing Cold War powers and complex Cambodian politics.

Belligerents3

Vietnam
Khmer Rouge
Democratic Kampuchea

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Phnom Penh1979

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Vietnamese-Cambodian War (1978 – 1989). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/vietnamese-cambodian-war-1978 · Sources & methodology