The district capital is Pramoey town located 109 km (68 mi) by road from National Highway Number 5.

The northern end of the Cardamom Mountains cover the eastern edge of Veal Veang to the Thai border.

The legacy of the Cambodian civil war and over 30 years of Khmer Rouge occupation has left many parts of the district heavily contaminated with landmines.

[4] As mines are cleared and roads improved, logging both legal and illegal threatens the remaining forested areas.

Veal Veang is also home to around 300 families of the few remaining ethnic minority Pear people.