{"id":344543,"date":"2025-08-16T17:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344543"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:34:53","slug":"key-facts-about-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Singapore\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>India and Singapore recently finalised around ten agreements. Pacts were signed on areas including on connectivity, digitalisation, healthcare and medicine, skills development and advanced technology.<\/p>\n<h2>About Singapore<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.britannica.com\/46\/4046-050-DE1203AC\/Singapore.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Singapore\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Singapore is a city-state located at the<strong> southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, a<\/strong>bout 137 kilometres north of the Equator.<\/li>\n<li>It consists of the main <strong>diamond-shaped Singapore Island and about 60 smaller islets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The main island is<strong> separated from Malaysia by the Johor Strait and from Indonesia by the Singapore Strait.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest point:<\/strong> The highest point is Timah Hill at 162 metres, while most of the island lies below 15 metres above sea level.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Four official languages are recognised:<\/strong> English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and Tamil.<\/li>\n<li>Singapore is a<strong> unitary parliamentary democracy<\/strong> based on the Westminster system.<\/li>\n<li>Singapore is the <strong>largest port in Southeast Asia<\/strong> and <strong>one of the busiest in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is member country of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India and Singapore recently finalised around ten agreements. Pacts were signed on areas including on connectivity, digitalisation, healthcare and medicine, skills development and advanced technology. About Singapore Location: Singapore is a city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, about 137 kilometres north of the Equator. It consists of the main diamond-shaped&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-singapore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key Facts about Singapore\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-344543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}