Chaktomuk

      The area around Phnom Penh has been inhabited for at least 2000 years, probably much longer.The area enters the historical record in the 15th century AD when it was known as Chaktomuk ( mean the Four Faces) so called for its location at the four-branched confluence of the Mekong River a river crossroads in the heart of Cambodia, the Sap river running to the agricultural heartland and the Angkorian capital, and the Mekong River north to Laos and south to the open sea, Phnom Penh is before all else the city at Chaktomuk. The first record of the name Phnom Penh comes in the telling of the legend of Lady Penh.