The city lies on the west bank of the Siem Reap River, a tributary of Tonle Sap, around a quarter of a mile from the stream. The south entryway of Angkor Thom is 7.2 km north of Siem Reap, and 1.7 km north of the passage to Angkor Wat. The dividers, 8 m high and flanked by a channel, are every 3 km long, encasing a zone of 9 km². The dividers are of laterite buttressed by earth, with a parapet on the top. There are doors at each of the cardinal focuses, from which streets lead to the Bayon at the focal point of the city. As the Bayon itself has no divider or canal its could call its own, those of the city are translated by archeologists as speaking to the mountains and seas encompassing the Bayon's Mount Meru. Another door the Victory Gate is 500 m north of the east entryway; the Victory Way runs parallel toward the east street to the Victory Square and the Royal Palace north of the Bayon.
The countenances on the 23 m towers at the city entryways, which are later increases to the principle structure, take after those of the Bayon and represent the same issues of translation. They may speak to the ruler himself, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, watchmen of the realm's cardinal focuses, or some blend of these. A highway compasses the channel before every tower: these have a line of devas on the left and asuras on the privilege, every line holding a naga in the demeanor of a pull of-war. This has all the earmarks of being a reference to the myth, well known in Angkor, of the Churning of the Sea of Milk. The sanctuary pile of the Bayon, or maybe the entryway itself, would then be the turn around which the stirring happens. The nagas might likewise speak to the move from the universe of men to the universe of the divine beings (the Bayon), or be gatekeeper figures.The portals themselves are 3.5 by 7 m, and would initially have been shut with wooden doors.The south entryway is presently by a wide margin the regularly went by, as it is the principle access to the city for vacationers.
At every edge of the city is a Prasat Chrung corner place of worship fabricated of sandstone and committed to Avalokiteshvara. These are cruciform with a focal tower, and orientated towards the east.
Inside of the city was an arrangement of waterways, through which water spilled out of the upper east toward the southwest. The main part of the area encased by the dividers would have been possessed by the common structures of the city, of which nothing remains. This range is presently secured by woods.
The majority of the colossal Angkor vestiges have unlimited showcases of bas-help portraying the different divine beings, goddesses, and other-common creatures from the fanciful stories and epic sonnets of antiquated Hinduism (altered by hundreds of years of Buddhism). Blended with these pictures are genuine known creatures, similar to elephants, snakes, angle, and monkeys, notwithstanding mythical serpent like animals that resemble the adapted, prolonged serpents (with feet and paws) found in Chinese wore
