Serei Saophoan (city)

Its population was 61,482 in the 1998 census, changing little to 61,631 in the 2008 census having been overtaken by Poipet in size.

About forty minutes from Sisophon there is a Khmer Angkor temple ruin called Banteay Chmar which was built during the reign of Jayavarman VII in the late 12th to early 13th century.

Name

The name "Sisophon" is of Thai origin, derived from Sanskrit "Śrī Śobhana", with "śobhana" literally meaning "beautiful", "bright", or "glorious". Before the Thais renamed it, it was a village known as "Phum Svay", meaning "village of mango trees", or "Phum Ta Svay", meaning "village of Grandfather Svay" (since "Svāy", meaning "mango tree", is a common given name in the countryside). The old name still survives in a hybrid form "Svay-Sisophon" used locally, as well as in the name of a nearby hill called Phnom Svay.