Kep Chuktema governed about 100,000 residents in Phnom Penh where today's city faces more gridlock with the rise of population growth at 7.5% each year.
Keb Chutema 20032013 On the banks of the Tonle Sap, Mekong, and Bassac Rivers, Phnom Penh is home to more than 2 million people, approximately 14% of the Cambodian population. The 1998 Census put Phnom Penh's population at 862,000; and the 2008 census was 1.3 million. 
