The Cambodian Khmer of United States, numbering approximately 197,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Khmer diaspora community in the United States, composed largely of refugees and their descendants who resettled after the Cambodian conflicts of the 1970s and who maintain cultural traditions rooted in Cambodia's Khmer heritage They are an Diaspora people, with Khmer as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Mon-Khmer people cluster of the Southeast Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Theravada Buddhism. They primarily speak Khmer.