Republic of Singapore
Asia Sudoriental
Gleaming · Efficient · Diverse
Singapore recycles used water back to drinking quality — 'NEWater' supplies up to 40% of national needs.
Singapore is simultaneously city, capital and entire nation-state — the Gardens by the Bay Supertrees and the Marina Bay Sands SkyPark define a skyline assembled in less than 60 years from reclaimed land, a deliberate global-stage architectural statement by a government that treats urban design as national branding.
Los principales idiomas hablados son inglés, Mandarin, malayo, tamil, que reflejan el patrimonio cultural del país y abren puertas a una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Singapur se contacta mediante el código +65. Singapore's four official languages — English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil — coexist with Singlish, the creole tongue that fuses all four with Hokkien and Cantonese particles, and which the government has periodically tried to suppress while Singaporeans stubbornly maintain it as the truest marker of local belonging.
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La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+08:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.
Hainanese Chicken Rice arrived in Singapore with immigrants from Hainan Province in the early 20th century and was refined by hawker stall operators into a dish of such precision — the rice cooked in chicken fat and pandan, the bird poached to silk — that it became the unofficial national meal and the subject of Michelin recognition at hawker-centre price points.
Joseph Schooling's 100m butterfly gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics — defeating his childhood idol Michael Phelps in a world-record-equalling time — was Singapore's first Olympic gold in any sport and produced a reception at Changi Airport that brought tens of thousands into the arrivals hall.
Despite being the world's most densely developed city-state, Singapore retains Bukit Timah Nature Reserve — a patch of primary rainforest within the city limits holding more tree species than the entire North American continent — a deliberate conservation choice that defines Singapore's self-image as a City in a Garden.