Metroji clue #146

Phnom Penh in five emoji

Cambodia

A capital at the meeting of three rivers, emptied at gunpoint in 1975 and repopulated after 1979. Most of what stands here is either older than that or newer.

What each emoji refers to

Apsara dancers hold positions with the fingers bent back, and the training starts in childhood because the joints have to be worked.
The Silver Pagoda has a floor of five thousand silver tiles, most of it still covered by carpet.
Silk weaving survived in villages outside the city, and garments are now the country's largest export.
The TonlΓ© Sap reverses direction twice a year when the Mekong rises, which is unusual enough to be a national holiday.
Cambodian mangoes are picked hard and eaten green with salt and chilli as often as they are eaten ripe.

Phnom Penh at a glance

Country
Cambodia
Coordinates
11.56Β° N, 104.93Β° E
First played

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Phnom Penh.

City Distance Direction
Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 200 km
BangkokThailand 540 km
VientianeLaos 760 km
PhuketThailand 820 km
Kuala LumpurMalaysia 1,000 km
HanoiVietnam 1,060 km

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