2006-07-08 06:53:06 · 21 answers · asked by kindagoodthing 1 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Singapore
Hi! I'm Singaporean,
Hope the following will help anyone who do not know where and my country - SINGAPORE is....
Singapore is an island city-state and the smallest country in Southeast Asia. It is located on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, south of the Malaysian state of Johor, and north of the Indonesian Riau Islands...
2006-07-08 18:52:35 · answer #1 · answered by Handsome 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Singapore, formally the Republic of Singapore (Malay: Republik Singapura; Chinese: æ°å å¡å
±åå½, Pinyin: XÄ«njiÄpÅ Gònghéguó; Tamil: à®à®¿à®à¯à®à®ªà¯à®ªà¯à®°à¯ à®à¯à®à®¿à®¯à®°à®à¯, CiÅkappÅ«r Kudiyarasu), is an island city-state and the smallest country in Southeast Asia. It is located on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, south of the Malaysian state of Johor, and north of the Indonesian Riau Islands. Its coordinates are 1°17.583′N 103°51.333′E, just 137 kilometres (85 miles) north of the Equator.
The site of several ancient port cities and a possession of several empires in its history, Singapore was a Malay fishing village when it was colonised by the United Kingdom in the 19th century. It was further occupied by the Japanese Empire in World War II, and was later part of the merger which established the Federation of Malaysia. When Singapore acquired independence, having few natural resources, it was sociopolitically volatile and economically undeveloped. Foreign investment and rapid government-led industrialisation has since created an economy which relies on exports of electronics and manufacturing primarily from its port.
More than 90% of Singapore's population lives in housing estates constructed by the Housing Development Board and nearly half uses the public transport system daily [1]. As a result of public transport and environmental initiatives by government ministries, Singapore's pollution is mostly confined within the heavy industry area on Jurong Island. The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore established the city-state as a representative democracy. Singapore initially undertook a democratic socialist policy shortly after its independence, adopting a welfare system. However, the government has since become more conservative than it was at the founding of the republic. Singapore faces criticism for being a reduced democracy because of its dominant-party system and has attracted controversy for some of its policies.
2006-07-08 14:01:21 · answer #2 · answered by K Y W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hallo guys...
singapore is no where near vietnam or china... nearest neighbours are malaysia and indonesia... we are surrounded by sea... 2 degress off the north of the equator... (if you need to be precise)
45 minutes by plane to KL, malaysia's capital or can take bus or train to malaysia...
singapore also hosted the first WTO where we had converted BMW taxis (if I'm not wrong) to drive all the delegates around...
it's no bigger than a pencil dot on the world map doesn't mean you can just put it anywhere on the map...
places that you must visit are chinatown, raffles place, city hall, geylang, orchard road amongst other attractions like sentosa and jurong bird park...
hope the above information does help...
2006-07-09 16:34:00 · answer #3 · answered by jcarrao 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I've heard about it. I live on the island.
Geographically, it's actually a tiny island that's floating about from the north pole to the south, staying within the asia pacific region depending on the time of the year. The weather changes as we float from china, down to vientman and finally swivel somewhere around indonesia. Most maps put us anchored at the southern tip of west malaysia, somewhere above sumatra, indonesia. Haven't reallt got floating to australia yet but we've been to siberia.
2006-07-09 14:50:09 · answer #4 · answered by chickenlittlecookie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup, Singapore is US 12th largest trading partner with over $33 billion traded in a year.
2006-07-08 22:58:10 · answer #5 · answered by firefly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, its in the Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, North Vietnam , nice place, just like Dien Bien Phu , lots of jungless, greenary , jungles, apes, monkeys, gorillas, monkeys, apes , orang utans , just like Dien Bien Phu
2006-07-08 20:34:41 · answer #6 · answered by jan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sunny island.
No earthquakes.
No volacano eruptions.
Clean and green.
Stable economy.
Good government.
Law abidding citizens.
Good food.
Shopping can de done every where.
Multi- racial society.
Melting pot.
A fantastic place.
2006-07-15 03:34:03 · answer #7 · answered by Xue Lang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, its near Hanoi Vietnam
2006-07-08 17:32:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes , the dot surrounded by Indonesia
2006-07-08 16:36:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That tiny island? Yes! Why?
2006-07-08 13:58:29 · answer #10 · answered by PAL L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋