Singapore is also unique and multifaceted as the people who live in this area of the Republic of microscopic little more than six hundred square kilometers and a population of about five million people.
After all, Singapore - is an example of "economic miracle", which is the father of Lee Kuan Yew, who turned 40 years of Singapore from the country "third world" in one of the most highly! At the time of independence (1965), Singapore was a small poor country, which had to be imported, even fresh water and building sand. Neighboring countries have been set up unfriendly, and a third of the population sympathized with the Communists. Today Singapore - a highly developed market economies (the low-tax), which play an important role transnational corporations. Gross national product per capita - one of the highest! And in the WEF competitiveness ranking of Singapore's economy in 2006 won 5th place in the world!
The only city with which, perhaps, can be compared to Singapore - Hong Kong is, however, with very large caveats. And here and there to create oases of technocratic in Asia had a hand in English. But if Hong Kong was left with a purely Chinese, from Singapore, despite the predominance of the same Chinese who turned international cosmopolitan metropolis.
At the same time inconceivably old with the new neighbors here - it's hard to see where it ends and begins skyscrapers classic "chaynatun" and no less real "Little India". Almost 80% of the Chinese, the other - came from India and Malays.
With all the inhabitants of this carefully managed to preserve the picturesque historic colonial center, which on the one hand, it resembles the English hinterland, on the other - the capital of a European state. Small houses on the river produce some contradictory impression on the background of luxury glass skyscrapers. city is almost on the equator, so the temperature variations in climate are minimal. The lowest temperature +19,4 ° C the highest +36,0 ° C
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