Singapore
Visited in March 2008
At a glance
- Country
- Singapore
- Region
- —
- Population
- 5.9 million
- Type
- Sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia
- Coordinates
- 1.29°N, 103.85°E
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Overview
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. The country is about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north.
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