Singapore

Basic facts about Singapore

Country name: Singapore
Capital: Singapore
Country code: 386
Continent: East & Southeast Asia
Currency name: Singapore dollar
Independence: 1965-08-09 00:00:00
Independent from: from Malaysian Federation
Total area (km2): 697
Land area (km2): 687
Water area (km2): 10
Population: 5,460,302
Population note: 5,460,302 (July 2013 est.)
Official language: English Malay Chinese Tamil
All languages: Mandarin (official) 35%, English (official) 23%, Malay (official) 14.1%, Hokkien 11.4%, Cantonese 5.7%, Teochew 4.9%, Tamil (official) 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 1.8%, other 0.9% (2000 census)
Time zone: SST (UTC+8)
Date format: dd/mm/yyyy
Drive on: left
Calling code: +65
Domain: .sg