About this tool
The Government Office Finder lists Cambodian administrative offices — commune and sangkat halls, district and khan administration offices, provincial halls and police posts — so you can see which offices serve an area before you travel there. Pick a province, then a district or khan, then a commune or sangkat, and the offices recorded for that area are listed with their name, office type and location details. It is built for everyday Cambodian errands: finding the sangkat office that issues a residency letter, the district hall that handles civil registration, or the police post responsible for a neighbourhood. The listings come from a compiled dataset, not a live government registry — coverage is reported per province and is still growing, and an optional OpenStreetMap overlay adds community-mapped offices under the ODbL licence with attribution shown on the page. The finder does not book appointments, does not show office hours, and is not an official government service directory.
How it works
The page calls the InKhmer API, which proxies a versioned government-office dataset published through the azwebdata pipeline. Primary records are compiled by a monthly upstream sweep over the NCDD administrative gazetteer, Open Development Cambodia CKAN extracts, licensed provincial pilot sites and operator-verified uploads, and every office carries an administrative code for its commune, district and province. Choosing a level filters offices by that code; offices the pipeline marks as rejected, closed or moved are excluded before they ever reach the page. A separate coverage endpoint reports how many offices in each province are verified versus not yet verified, which is what the stat tiles at the top of the page read. When the community overlay is switched on, OpenStreetMap offices are merged into the results and the required ODbL attribution is shown. If the dataset upstream cannot be reached, the page shows an error state instead of serving silently stale listings.
Use cases
- Find which sangkat office issues a residency confirmation letter before paying for transport into town
- Locate the district hall responsible for birth and marriage registration in a rural district
- Look up the police post recorded for a commune after moving to a new rental
- Check which offices a provincial hall lists for a business licence visit
- See whether a remote commune has any recorded administrative office at all before planning a trip
- Map service-access gaps when researching how far villagers travel for paperwork
Frequently asked questions
Is this an official government directory?
No. The listings come from a compiled dataset built from the NCDD gazetteer, Open Development Cambodia extracts, licensed provincial sites and community mapping — not from a live government registry. The Ministry of Interior administers territorial divisions and the national police; nothing on this page is issued or endorsed by it. Office mandates, addresses and opening hours change without notice, so treat each listing as a starting point and confirm directly with the office before relying on it for time-sensitive paperwork.
Why does my commune show few or no offices?
Coverage is still partial and differs by province — the coverage tiles at the top of the page show how many recorded offices per province are verified versus not yet verified. An empty commune usually means the dataset has not confirmed offices there yet, not that none exist. The upstream sweep runs monthly and republishes the snapshot as verification continues, so gaps shrink over time rather than being filled by unverified guesses.
What do the office types mean?
Listings are grouped by office type — commune or sangkat hall, district or khan administration, provincial hall, police post and others. The type tells you which level of administration the office answers to, and that matters because each level handles different paperwork: residency letters and civil-status requests at the commune level, civil registration at the district level, provincial-level services at the hall. Pick the level matching your errand before filtering by area.
How accurate are the map pins?
Every pin comes from a coordinate the pipeline recorded with a provenance method — for example a gazetteer coordinate, a matched address point or an operator-verified upload. Accuracy varies by method: a verified upload typically sits close to the building, while a gazetteer point may mark the commune centroid rather than the exact gate. Cards flag whether each location is verified, and an office without a confirmed coordinate never gets a pin on the map.
Why does an office show "Location not verified yet" instead of a pin?
That chip means the dataset holds the office name and its administrative placement but no confirmed coordinate, so nothing is drawn on the map. The card still lists the office name, type and area because the record itself is real — only the pin is withheld rather than guessed. Those offices stay in the list so you can still see what serves the area, and the help-us-fix link on the card is how corrections feed back upstream.
Can I trust the community-mapped overlay entries?
The optional overlay adds offices recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors under the ODbL licence, with attribution shown whenever it is enabled. Community rows help discover offices the primary dataset has not covered yet, but they are not checked against official lists, so treat them as leads rather than confirmed addresses — an office mapped by a volunteer may have moved or been tagged loosely. Confirm the location before travelling, especially for a long trip.
Where do I report a crime?
The finder shows which police post is recorded for a commune, district or khan — useful when you need to know which post covers your area before visiting. For an active emergency, do not rely on a directory page: go to the nearest police post in person or reach the national police through official channels. Administrative police matters fall under the Ministry of Interior, which publishes its own contact points on its site.
What is the difference between a khum and a sangkat?
They are the same administrative level — a khum is the commune-level unit in rural areas, while a sangkat is the equivalent unit inside municipalities and towns, so both sit below the district or khan. The NCDD gazetteer uses both terms for this one level. The finder treats them identically: when you pick a commune filter you may see either name, and the office type is labelled commune hall or sangkat hall depending on which applies to that area.
How current is the information?
The dataset is published as versioned snapshots built by the monthly upstream sweep, and the page always reads the latest published snapshot — the last-updated tile shows when it was built. Listings reflect the last verification pass, not real-time changes, so an office that recently moved or closed may lag until the next publication. If the upstream cannot be reached the page shows an error rather than serving silently stale listings.
How do I report a wrong address or a missing office?
Corrections flow back into the upstream dataset rather than the page itself. Compiled records are verified through the azwebdata pipeline, and community overlay rows can be fixed directly on OpenStreetMap, where the next extract picks them up. Offices showing "Location not verified yet" carry a help-us-fix link on their card for exactly this, so a wrong pin or a missing hall can be flagged where the data actually lives.
Data and accuracy
Listings come from a compiled government-office dataset published as versioned snapshots through the azwebdata pipeline. Primary records are built by a monthly sweep over the NCDD administrative gazetteer, Open Development Cambodia CKAN extracts, licensed provincial pilot sites and operator-verified uploads; offices flagged rejected, closed or moved upstream are excluded. An optional overlay merges community-mapped OpenStreetMap offices under the ODbL licence with attribution shown on the page. The per-province coverage counts the page displays are computed from the same dataset.
Sources
- NCDD — National Committee for sub-National Democratic Development — NCDD
- NCDD Cambodia Gazetteer database — NCDD
- Open Development Cambodia — data portal — Open Development Cambodia
- Ministry of Interior — territorial administration and police — Ministry of Interior, Cambodia
- OpenStreetMap copyright and ODbL attribution — OpenStreetMap Foundation
- Geofabrik — Cambodia OpenStreetMap extract — Geofabrik GmbH
Content last reviewed 24 October 2026