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 |