Cambodia blasts Google Earth for locating temple on Thai soil

Cambodia, which is embroiled in a bitter diplomatic row with Thailand over the demarcation of the frontier, said the Google Earth map was "devoid of truth and reality" and called for its immediate removal because it was not internationally recognised.

Cambodia made the complaint in a letter issued a day ahead of the first-ever visit to the border region by its outspoken prime minister, Hun Sen, a move likely to raise tension between the historic foes.

"(The map) is devoid of truth and reality, and professionally irresponsible, if not pretentious," Svay Sitha, secretary of state of the Cambodia's Council of Ministers, wrote in the letter seen by Reuters on Friday.

"We therefore request that you withdraw the already disseminated, very wrong and not internationally recognised map and replace it," he said.