Stœ̆ng Trêng

Stung Treng lies at the meeting of the Sekong and the Mekong in northern Cambodia. The Sekong gathers the waters of the Sesan and Srepok from the eastern highlands, while the Mekong flows south past islands and flooded forests. This confluence connects the inland river valleys with the Cambodian lowlands. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the region lay between the competing ambitions of Siam and Vietnam.