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==Style== Angkor Thom is in the Bayon style.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Downey|first=Tom|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-runners-guide-to-touring-angkor-wat-and-beyond-11567696657|title=A Runner's Guide to Touring Angkor Wat and Beyond|date=2019-09-05|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2020-03-12|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> This manifests itself in the large scale of the construction, in the widespread use of [[laterite]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=UCHIDA|first1=Etsuo|last2=MAEDA|first2=Noriyuki|last3=NAKAGAWA|first3=Takeshi|date=1999|title=The laterites of the Angkor monuments, Cambodia. The grouping of the monuments on the basis of the laterites.|journal=Journal of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology|volume=94|issue=5|pages=162β175|doi=10.2465/ganko.94.162|issn=0914-9783|doi-access=free}}</ref> in the face-towers at each of the entrances to the city and in the [[Naga (mythology)|naga]]-carrying giant figures which accompany each of the towers.
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