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Kaona (Kaonese: ข้าวนาำ; Kâaona; Bassac: ເຂົ້າສະໜາມ; Khaosanam) officially the Republic of Kaona (Kaonese: สาธารณรัฐข้าวนา; S̄āṭhārṇrạṭ̄h Kâaona; Bassac: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ຂອງ ເຂົ້າສະໜາມ; Sathalanalad Khong Khaosanam) is a country in Isuan sharing land and maritime borders with Songha to the south. Populated predominantly by ethnic Kaonese with a large minority of Bassacs Kaona has a population of 87 million people. Its capital and largest city is Phuko, located in the south of the country.

Kaona has been inhabited since the palaeolithic age. The Pankong Kingdom which emerged around 100 BCE was the first Kaonese state which saw the partial codification of the Kaonese language, although remained subordinate to other larger states and empires in the area. The Pankong Kingdom would be succeeded briefly by a period of civil war before the rise of the Hom Khao Empire from 800 CE to the 1100's would emerge. The empire was dominated by the ethnic Bassac Xang dynasy but never reached the heights of other empires in the region; for this reason its collapse in the 1300's meant that many of its achievements were reversed in the regionalisation that succeeded it. (See more...)