CULTURE
ETHNIC GROUPS
Chines 74.2%, Malay 13.3%, Indian 9.2%,
Other 3.3%.
RELIGION
Catholic 7.1%, Hindu 5.2%, Buddhist 33.9%,
Muslim 14.3, Taoist 11.3%, Christian 11%,
Other 0.7%, None 16.4%
LANGUAGE
Mandarin 36.3%, English 29.8%, Malay 11.9%,
Hokkien 8.1%, Tamil 4.4%, Cantonese 4.1%,
Teochew 3.2%, Other Indian languages 1.2%,
other Chines dialects 1.1%, Other 1.1%.
6 GRADE PROJECT
FEBRUARY 2015
BY
DIEGO QUINTANA
GENERAL INFORMATION
POPULATION
5,567,301 (2014)
GOVERNMENT
TYPE OF GOVERNMENT
Parliamentary republic
CHIEF OF STATE
President Tony Tan Keng Yam
ECONOMY
CURRENCY
Singapore dollars
INDUSTRIES
Electronics, chemicals, financial service, oil
drilling equipment, petroleum refining, rubber
processing and rubber products, processed
food and beverages, ship repair, offshore
platforms construction, life science, entepot
trade
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Orchids, vegetables, poultry, egg, fish, oriental
fish.
EDUCATION
DEFINITION
Age 15 and over can read and write.
MALES
98%
FEMALES
93.8%
HEAD OF GOVERNMENT
Prime Minister Lee Hsieh Loong
COMMUNICATION
AND TRANSPORTATION
NUMBER OF TELEPHONE LINES
1.99 million
RAILWAYS
0
ROADWAYS
3,425 Km
NUMBER OF AIRPORTS
9
GEOGRAPHY
AREA
697 sq km
CAPITAL
Singapore
IMPORTANT CITIES
Tuas, Yishurt New Town, Bedok.
LOCATION
CONTINENT
Asia
NEIGHBORS
Malay, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pulaubatam.
NATURAL FEATURES
MAJOR BODIES OF LAND
Low land, gently undulating center plateau
contains water cachment area and nature
preserves.
MAJOR BODIES OF WATER
Main Strait, Singapore Strait, Kuala Johor,
Johor Strait.
NATURAL RESOURCES
Fish, deep water ports
LAND USE
ARABLE LAND: 0.89%
PERMANENT CROPS: 0.14%
OTHER: 98.97%
CLIMATE
Tropical, hot, humid, rainy, to distinct
monsoon seasons, northeastern monsoon and
south western monsoon inter monsoon.