People's Republic of Kampuchea

State · 1979–1995 CE · at its largest around 1979 CE

A state set up in Cambodia after Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979, led by former Khmer Rouge defectors with Vietnamese backing. It was renamed the State of Cambodia in 1989.

On its lands while it lasted

Pol Pot (1925 CE – 1998 CE): Leader of the Khmer Rouge and of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979, whose regime was responsible for the Cambodian genocide.
Cambodian genocide (1975–1979 CE): Under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died from execution, forced labour and starvation.