Category:Kampong Speu Province

Map Keys
	Large Prasats		Arogyasalas
	Large Ruins		Dharmasalas
	Medium Prasats		Ancient Bridges
	Medium Ruins		Ancient Cities
	Medium Tuols		Ancient Kilns
	Small Prasats		Ancient Quarries
	Small Ruins		Ancient Reservoirs
	Small Tuols		Ancient Villages
	Museums		Carvings
	Depositories		Other Structures
	Wats		Prehistoric Sites
	Neak Ta's		Unknown Sites
	Unconfirmed Sites

Regrettably, despite a large number of sites listed, Kampong Speu Province today boasts a solitary, standing ancient structure, the Sambor Prei Kuk-style tower at Prasat Ka-aek Pong. All other sites are either mounds and ruins or modern-day Buddhist wats housing ancient artefacts such as pedestals etc. The latter category also includes a number of monasteries showing traces of surrounding moats and which are likely to correspond to ancient temple sites.

Much of the western part of the province is still mountainous and forested and the near totality of sites are located in a north-south band in the east, bordering what are now Kandal and Takeo Provinces. The eastern reaches are today heavily cultivated and certainly formed an important agricultural area, as well as communications route, in ancient times with the profusion of smaller sites indicative of a dense rural, village, population but lacking in major settlements.

The probable Funan capital of Angkor Borei is situated a short distance to the southeast while Kampong Chhnang's cluster of 7th-century temples lies to the north so the majority of the province's sites are correspondingly early ones. Other periods are represented and Kampong Speu's importance undoubtedly continued throughout Angkorian, and indeed post-Angkorian, times.