‘Kampong’ is not just a prefix to make up any name of Cambodia’s provinces and places, but it also gives some meaning to the location. In most cases, the provinces and places with this ‘Kampong’ are connected to the rivers and streams, making way for locals to have the ‘Kampong’ for their use in their daily life. As the boat goes away, the pontoon stays. The ‘pontoon’ itself is somewhat equivalent to Khmer term ‘Kampong’. Here’s some travel note about a trip to Kampong Luang.

I just wanted to see Kampong Luang on my way to Phnom Pehn. It’s the floating village with about 10,000 inhabitants. Everybody lives on boats and the whole village moves up and down with the level of the water in the lake.