Saom Thum

Saom Thum សោមធំ
Commune
Saom Thum Location within Cambodia
Coordinates: 13°44′02″N 107°22′59″E
Country	Cambodia
Province	Ratanakiri Province
District	Ou Ya Dav District
Villages	3
Population  (1998)
• Total	1,964
Time zone	UTC+07
Geocode	160706

Saom Thum (Khmer: សោមធំ) is a commune in Ou Ya Dav District in northeast Cambodia. It contains three villages and has a population of 1,964.^[1] In the 2007 commune council elections, three of the commune's five seats went to the Cambodian People's Party and two went to the Sam Rainsy Party.^[2] The land alienation rates in Saom Thum was low as of January 2006.^[3] (See Ratanakiri Province for background information on land alienation.)

Village[1][4]	Population[1] (1998)	Sex ratio[1] (male/female) (1998)	Number of households[1] (1998)	Notes
Saom Klueng	852	0.91	131
Saom Trak	696	0.92	136
Saom Kol	416	1.06	62

References

1. "Final Population Totals, Rotanak Kiri Province, 1998" Archived 2008-10-29 at the Wayback Machine. Cambodia National Institute of Statistics. Accessed June 6, 2008.
2. "Official Results of the 2007 Commune Councils Election in Ratank Kiri" Archived 2008-06-02 at the Wayback Machine. [sic] National Election Committee, No 4.58/07 NEC.SG.PIB (April 18, 2007). Accessed June 6, 2008.
3. "Land Alienation in Indigenous Minority Communities - Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia" Archived 2008-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. NGO Forum on Cambodia (August 2006). Accessed June 6, 2008.
4. "Ratanak Kiri Province" Archived 2008-06-02 at the Wayback Machine. Cambodia National Institute of Statistics. Accessed June 6, 2008.