Nov 23, 2010

Singapore, what?

Singapore is a tiny island-country of 5 millions inhabitants (very densely populated), located in Southeast Asia, 137 km north of the equator.

It was a British colony during 200 years till the independance of 1965 and the birth of the Republic of Singapore.

The main language is English, but Chinese is commonly used due to the large amount of Chinese in the population.

The island has a very constant climate with temperature around 30 degrees and humidity around 90% all year round.

All religions are present but Buddhism is the dominant religion (42% of the population).

Singapore economy is one of most prosperous in the world and considered by the world bank to be the easiest to do business. The unemployment rate remains stable around 3%.

4 comments:

  1. Is there no dictatorship by any chance ?

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  2. Officialy it's a démocracy, but...

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  3. Is there some free space, or is the whole country formed of a city? It looks quite small for 5 million inhabitants.

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  4. City looks great ! And very varied. I would like to visit it one day.

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