Chinese Cambodians are Cambodian citizens of Chinese descent. Khmer-Chen is used for peoples of either mixed Cambodian & Chinese descent or people of whom are Cambodian born citizens with Chinese ancestry; (Khmer being the ethnic group of Cambodia and Chen meaning Chinese in the Khmer language). During the late 1960s and early 1970s they were the largest ethnic minority in Cambodia; there were an estimated 425000. However by 1984 there were only 61400 Chinese Cambodians left.
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