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Land in part of Cambodia (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

india

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'land' is the definition.
(India is an example)

'part of cambodia' is the wordplay.
'part of' becomes 'in' (I've seen this in other clues).
'cambodia' becomes 'dia' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in'+'dia'='INDIA'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for india that I've seen before include "Commonwealth country, independent in 1947" , "Second-most populous country" , "Eastern country" , "Cricket team" , "Bollywood's country" .)

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