Cambodia's Largest, Least-Populated Province.
Discover the Wild
Eco-trails, Bou Sra, and Indigenous Culture.
Begin Journey →Provincial Intelligence
Spatial Plans, Legal Registers, and Demographics.
Access Data →Living Here
Expat & local guides, housing, climate.
Explore Guides →Business & Economy
Agriculture, investment, infrastructure.
View Economy →Take Part
Community projects and volunteering.
Get Involved →Area
General Population Census 2019, NIS
Forest Cover (2030 Proj.)
WWF Mondulkiri Provincial Spatial Plan, business-as-usual scenario
Tourism sources commonly cite current cover near 90%; this figure is WWF's modeled 2030 projection under current land-use trends. No single reconciled current-year figure was found.Elevation
Average; provincial terrain ranges 200–1,000m+
Population
General Population Census 2019, NIS
Density
NIS Census 2019 (92,213 ÷ 14,288 km²)
Rainfall (Annual)
Copernicus C3S climate averages, 1991–2020
Temperature (Mean)
Derived, day/night avg. — Copernicus C3S, 1991–2020
How to use this site
A 3:11 walkthrough of the six things worth knowing before you read a single figure. Captioned, no sound needed — and written out in full underneath, if you would rather read than watch.
Silent and captioned by design: nothing here needs headphones. Full transcript below.
The short version
- 1Read the badge firstVerified, Reported, Derived or Contested. The badge changes what the number means, and every figure on the site carries one.
- 2Filter, do not scrollThe Data Hub holds 40 panels. Type what you want in your own words; the filter reads meaning, not spelling.
- 3Ask the data24 tables and 327 rows are queryable in plain English, in your browser. It will decline a question that has no meaning.
- 4Stack the map21 layers over one boundary. The overlaps between them are the findings no single official map shows.
- 5Trust the contradictionsWhere two official sources disagree, both are printed with a note on when to use which. Nothing is averaged away.
- 6Read the gaps19 things this record is missing are listed in public, with a route in if you can close one.
Full transcript, with timings
01 · Welcome 0:00
A public record of Mondulkiri province: its land, its law, its money and its forest.
Nothing here asks to be believed. Everything here says where it came from.
02 · Source tiers 0:07
Start here. Four badges, and they change what a number means.
Verified — it is printed in an official document, or measured from official geometry.
Reported — a named person said it. Useful, but nobody has audited it.
Derived — we calculated it. The working is always shown next to it.
Contested — two official sources disagree, so both are printed and neither is averaged away.
03 · The Data Hub 0:34
The Data Hub holds 40 panels in 8 groups. Scroll it, or filter it. One bar does both.
Type what you want in your own words — not the site's words. "Who owns the land".
The filter reads meaning, not spelling. "Owns" finds panels that say tenure, title, concession.
Results are ranked, best first, with the score shown. Click any one to jump straight to it.
Try "bauxite", "doctor", "sub-decree", "who claims this land". Every panel is reachable by a word you would actually type.
04 · Ask the data 1:05
Below the filter is something different: a question box that computes an answer.
Ask in plain English. It reads 17 tables and 235 rows held in the page — nothing leaves your browser.
Answers come back with a badge, so you always know whether you are reading a source or our arithmetic.
And it declines questions that have no meaning. Adding one year of arrivals to another year is not a total.
A tool that refuses a bad question is more useful than one that always answers.
05 · The map 1:39
The interactive map carries 21 layers over the province's real boundaries.
Turn on protected areas. Then mining licences. Watch what happens where they meet.
Then hydropower sites, then tourism sites. No official map draws these together. This one does.
Hover anything for its name, its layer, and — for the eleven sites with no English name — its Khmer one.
The overlaps are not decoration. They are the finding.
06 · Disagreements 2:08
Sooner or later you will meet two numbers for the same thing. That is not a bug.
Six quantities here have a rival figure — area, population, villages, mining, tourism sites.
This page puts them side by side with who said which, and tells you when to reach for each.
If you only remember one page, remember this one.
07 · Visitor Guide 2:31
Not here for the data? The Visitor Guide answers a traveller's questions from the same record.
Getting there, when to come, what it actually costs, and which elephant projects are honest.
Same badges. A trip planned on sourced facts.
08 · What is missing 2:48
Last, and least usual: the site publishes its own holes. Seventeen of them, in public.
A register that hides what it is missing is not a register.
If you hold data that closes one, there is a way in.
09 · Close 3:03
Badges first. One filter, or just scroll. Stack the map. Trust the contradictions.
mondulkiri.com
The Province in Pictures
In Depth
Agricultural Investment
Mondulkiri's economy remains predominantly agricultural, anchored by smallholder cashew and rice production alongside larger rubber and cassava operations concentrated near Sen Monorom and along the province's main road corridors.
- Rubber and cashew dominate large-scale and concession agriculture
- Bunong-grown forest-garden coffee is a smaller, fast-growing export segment
- Economic land concessions intersect with community land claims — see the Legal Register
- Wet-season road conditions remain the most cited constraint on scaling outside Sen Monorom
Infrastructure & Investment
Investment interest is growing around tourism infrastructure, agro-processing, and renewable energy, though due diligence on land tenure and concession status is a standard first step for any serious venture here.
Housing & Cost of Living in Sen Monorom
Sen Monorom, the provincial capital, has developed a genuine mix of guesthouses, long-term rentals, and homes built specifically for foreign residents and NGO staff. Elevation keeps the climate noticeably cooler than lowland Cambodia year-round.
- Rental costs sit well below Phnom Penh across every housing tier
- Utility reliability — water pressure, internet, power — varies by property; check in person
- Longer leases are usually negotiated directly with landlords, not agencies
- Imported and specialty goods carry a real premium given distance from Phnom Penh
Climate
The highland elevation produces a cooler, drier climate than most of Cambodia — one of the most consistently cited reasons residents give for relocating.
Community Projects
Volunteering and partnership routes here tend to run through existing community and conservation organizations rather than informal drop-in programs, and most ask for a minimum time commitment.
- Implementing partner — long-term, program-level collaboration
- Consortium member — joint proposals and shared funding
- Project support — in-kind, technical, or short-term contributions
- Join the team — ongoing roles with local organizations
Getting Involved
Reach out through the Contribute page or the contact details in the footer — every inquiry is read and routed to the relevant local partner.