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The Map Cambodia in GEO Magazine
GEO gave Cambodia its August 2026 cover and a thirty-page feature — and listed The Map's free printed guide among the practical essentials for Angkor.
GEO gave its August cover to Cambodia, and The Map turned up inside. Not as the subject — the magazine has better things to cover — but in the practical pages, among the things the writer thought were worth having on the trip.
What the issue covers
Issue 570, out on 29 July 2026, carries a feature of close to thirty pages, written by Sébastien Desurmont with photography by Riccardo Urbano. It is built around three destinations rather than one: Ratanakiri, for its forest and the ethnic minority communities of the northeast; Kampot, for the pepper farms and what is left of the colonial town; and Angkor, approached through a practical guide that leans on the quieter temples and on different ways of moving between them.
That structure is worth noting on its own. A French general-interest magazine giving its cover to Cambodia and then spending two thirds of the feature outside Siem Reap is a fair reflection of how the country is actually travelled now.
Where The Map appears
The practical section runs through the things that make Angkor easier: going to the Bayon early, saving Ta Prohm for late afternoon, hiring a tuk-tuk by the day. For getting your bearings it points readers to two tools — the official Angkor Pass app, and The Map, described as a clear paper plan, given away free in hotels and cafés, with a QR code on it that opens the digital version.
That is an accurate description, and a good short answer to why the printed map and the digital one exist as a pair rather than as alternatives.
Where to find both
The issue is on French newsstands and worth reading on its own terms; we have not reproduced any of it here. Cambodge Mag covered the release and its significance for the country in more detail than we will.
The printed maps are free, and stocked in selected hotels, cafés, restaurants and shops across the country — the Siem Reap edition alone is in more than 130 locations. Every copy carries the QR code, which opens the digital guide.
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