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About The People
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Singapore History
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Statue of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of modern Singapore
FAVORABLY LOCATED AT the southern end of the Strait of
Malacca,
the shortest sea route between China and India, the island
of
Singapore was known to mariners as early as the third
century A.D.
By the seventh century, the Srivijaya Empire, the first in
a
succession of maritime states to arise in the region of
the Malay
Archipelago, linked numerous ports and cities along the
coasts of
Sumatra, Java, and the Malay Peninsula. Singapore probably
was one
of many outposts of Srivijaya, serving as an entrepôt and
supply
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Capital Cities... Singapore »» History of Singapore
Population: 4,657,542
GDP: $240,000,000,000 (USD)
Total Area: 692 (sq km) 267 (sq mi)
Currency: Singapore dollar
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