1992, the United Nations listed Angkor Wat as a world cultural heritage, and since then Angkor Wat has become a tourist attraction in Cambodia. /kloc-for more than 0/00 years, countries all over the world have invested a lot of money in the maintenance project of Angkor Wat to protect this world cultural heritage. The shape of Angkor Wat has become a national symbol of Cambodia and is displayed on the Cambodian national flag.
In 802, King Suriye Pomo II of Angkor hoped to build a magnificent grotto temple on the flat ground as the capital and national temple of Angkor. So it took the whole country's efforts and 35 years or so to build it [note 1].
Angkor Wat is the peak of Khmer classical architecture, which combines two basic layouts of Khmer temple architecture: altar and cloister [1]. The altar [Note 3] consists of three rectangular platforms, surrounded by cloisters, one higher than the other, symbolizing Mount Sumi in Indian mythology and located in the center of the world. Five pagodas stand at the top of the altar, arranged in a five-point plum blossom pattern, symbolizing the five peaks of Xumi Mountain. The temple is surrounded by a moat, symbolizing the Aral Sea around Mount Sumi.