HAPPY NATIONAL DAY SINGAPORE ...🇸🇬
Fun Facts about world Famous Tiny Red Dot City State for Efficiency, Cleanliness & Good Governance.
🤞 Singapore’s national anthem is in micro-text on the back of their $1,000 note.
🤞 Singapore is one of only three surviving city-states in the world. The other two are Monaco and the Vatican City.
🤞Sang Nila Utama, a prince from Palembang, saw a creature he thought was a lion and named the island “Singapura” which means “Lion City” in Sanskrit. However, there have never been lions outside of captivity in Singapore.
🤞In addition to its main island, the nation of Singapore includes 63 additional islands, most of which are uninhabited.
🤞Singapore is among the 20 smallest countries in the world, with a total land area of only 682.7 square kilometers. The United States is about 15,000 times bigger.
🤞The red of Singapore’s flag represents universal brotherhood and equality of man while the white symbolizes purity and virtue. The crescent moon stands for a young nation on the rise and the five stars signify the ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.
🤞Singapore’s Bukit Timah Nature Reserve holds more species of trees than the entire North American continent.
🤞Singapore has more than 3,000 kilometres of roads. Stretched out end to end, they would cover the distance from Singapore to Hong Kong.
🤞The national language of Singapore is Malay. The four official languages of the country are English, Chinese, Tamil, and Malay.
