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Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California

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Cambodia Town (also known as Little Phnom Penh or Little Cambodia) is the official name for a roughly one mile long business corridor along Anaheim Street between Atlantic and Junipero avenues in the Eastside of Long Beach, California. The area has numerous Cambodian restaurants, clothing stores, jewelry stores, and donut shops, as well as churches, temples, and service centers for Cambodian Americans. There are many other businesses in the area, such as auto repair shops, that are Cambodian-owned. Long Beach has the largest concentration of Cambodians of any city outside of Cambodia.

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Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California
Gardenia Avenue, Long Beach

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N 33.79 ° E -118.1689 °
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Gardenia Avenue
90806 Long Beach
California, United States
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