Singapore
Singapore (officially Republic of Singapore) is a country in South-Eastern Asia, with its capital at Singapore, and is home to roughly 6.0M people.
Its official languages are English, Malay, Tamil, Chinese; the currency in circulation is Singapore dollar ($); people from here are called Singaporean.
- »Singapore is one of only three surviving city-states.
- »It has grown its land area by roughly a quarter through reclamation.
- »More than half the island is covered by greenery.
Singapore shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Indonesia (1,147 km), Malaysia (1,237 km) and Brunei (1,247 km), measured centre to centre.
Singapore is a city-state, so the capital and the country are the same thing, an arrangement shared by only a couple of other nations.
513 km² (198 sq mi), 180th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Palau.
Population 6,036,860, 113th of 198 on file. That averages 11,768 per km² (30,478 per sq mi).
The crescent stands for a young nation on the rise and the five stars for democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality. Red and white were chosen over a red-and-yellow design partly to avoid resembling other flags in the region.
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