Singapore

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Singapore
country profile
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geography

• 395.2 square km

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population

• Population 4,246,223 -UN 2005 estimate (UK
  60,094,648)
• Density 6295 per square km (UK 245/square km)
• Most people live in public-housing tower blocks

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religion

• Buddhist 42.5
• Muslim 14.9
• Non-religious /other 14.8
• includes Sikh and Jewish
• Christian 14.6
• Hindu 4
• Sikh 0.5
• Bahai 0.1

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history

• 1819 Stamford Raffles
• 1824 British East India Company
• Major trading centre
• WW2 Japanese occupation
• 1965 Independent republic
• 1959-1990 Lee Kuan Yew leads
• 1998 recession after Asian economic crisis
• Currently a prosperous, clean and safe country