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Hotels Singapore

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Singapore is an island microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands.

Singapore's main territory is a diamond-shaped island, although her territory includes surrounding smaller islands. Singapore is slightly more than 3.5 times the size of Washington DC. Of Singapore's dozens of smaller islands, Jurong Island, Pulau Tekong, Pulau Ubin and Sentosa are the larger ones. Most of Singapore is no more than 15 meters above sea level.

When Singapore was first colonized by the British, the city of Singapore was situated on the southern coast, around the mouth of the Singapore River. This area remains the Downtown Core of Singapore. The rest of the island was farmland and primary rainforest. However, since the 1960s the government has constructed many new towns in other areas, so that today the island is nearly entirely built-up and urbanised, with only a few exceptions, such as Bukit Timah Nature Reserve or reclaimed land in the process of being developed. However, even though Singapore is nearly totally urban, the Central Area, which contains a high concentration of financial and commercial districts because this area is closest to Singapore's port.

Jurong Island is a man-made island located to the southwest of the main island of Singapore, off Jurong Industrial Estate. It was formed from the amalgamation of several offshore islands, chiefly the seven main islands of Pulau Ayer Chawan, Pulau Ayer Merbau, Pulau Merlimau, Pulau Pesek, Pulau Pesek Kecil, Pulau Sakra and Pulau Seraya. This was done through land reclamation.

Prior to European settlement, the island now known as Singapore was the site of a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Singapore River. Several hundred indigenous Orang Laut people also lived along the nearby coast, rivers and on smaller islands. In 1819 the British East India Company established a trading post on the island, which was used thereafter as a strategic trading post along the spice route. Singapore would become one of the most important commercial and military centres of the British Empire, and the hub of British power in Southeast Asia. The city was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, which Winston Churchill called "Britain's greatest defeat". Singapore reverted to British rule immediately postwar, in 1945. Eighteen years later the city, having achieved independence from Britain, merged with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak to form Malaysia. However, less than two years later it seceded from the federation and became an independent republic on 9 August 1965. Singapore joined the United Nations on 21 September that same year. It is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Islands of Singapore l
Pedra Branca · Pulau Anak Bukom · Pulau Bajau · Pulau Berkas · Pulau Biola (Violin Island) · Pulau Brani · Pulau Buaya · Pulau Bukom / Pulau Bukum · Pulau Bukom Kechil/Pulau Bukum Kechil · Pulau Buloh · Pulau Busing · Pulau Damar Laut · Pulau Damien · Pulau Hantu (Ghost Island) · Pulau Jong (Junk Island) · Pulau Keppel · Pulau Ketam · Pulau Khatib Bongsu · Pulau Malang Siajar · Pulau Palawan · Pulau Pawai · Pulau Pergam · Pulau Renggis · Pulau Sakijang Bendera (St. John's Island) · Pulau Sakijang Pelepah (Lazarus Island) · Pulau Salu · Pulau Samulun · Pulau Sarimbun · Pulau Satumu (One Tree Island) · Pulau Sebarok (Middle Island) · Pulau Seletar · Pulau Semakau · Pulau Senang (Barn Island) · Pulau Sekudu (Frog Island) · Pulau Selugu (Sarong Island) · Pulau Serangoon (Coney Island) · Pulau Seringat · Pulau Seringat Kechil · Pulau Subar Darat (Sisters' Islands) · Pulau Subar Laut (Sisters' Islands) · Pulau Sudong · Pulau Tekong · Pulau Tekukor · Pulau Tembakul (Kusu Island / Peak Island) · Pulau Ubin · Pulau Ujong (Singapore Island) · Pulau Ular · Pulau Unum · Sentosa · Sultan Shoal

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