Chē Qú Kingdom () was a polity named in a single Chinese notice, which places it to the south of Zhenla. The notice survives in the leishu Cefu Yuangui, compiled under the Song dynasty (960–1279), and nothing further is recorded of it.
Chinese record The sole known reference to Chē Qú is preserved in the Chinese encyclopedic compilation Cefu Yuangui, which records it in a geographical notice concerning Zhenla.
Location The notice fixes Chē Qú only in relation to Zhenla, so where it is placed depends on where Zhenla is placed. It has been put in the easternmost provinces of Cambodia, Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri and eastern Stung Treng, on the older view that early Zhenla lay along the Mekong lowland from Champasak in southern Laos down to Kratié in Cambodia.
That account of Zhenla's beginnings has since been questioned. Khmer inscriptions earlier than the 7th century cluster in central and southern Cambodia and the Mekong Delta, while southern Laos and north-western Cambodia carry Cham inscriptions instead. The Văt Luong Kău stele at Vat Phou names a 5th-century mahārājādhirāja, Śrī Devanika, whom George Cœdès connected with no Chenla line and whose inscription he judged closer in style to early Cham than to Funan or Chenla; he concluded that Champasak was not under Chenla in the 5th century and that its early centre must be sought further south. On the current reading that centre was Sambor Prei Kuk, in the lower Tonlé Sap basin. A Zhenla centred there would carry the ground to its south with it, and with that any placement of Chē Qú derived from the notice.
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