Everything you need to know about Singapore
Explore Singapore from Marina Bay and the old ethnic quarters to the heartland new towns, the central reservoirs and the islands offshore. Learn all fifty-five planning areas, trace four straits and seas, discover sixteen sights, read ten illustrated topics and begin Malay, Mandarin or Tamil.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Singapore
A main island and sixty-odd islets at the southern exit of the Strait of Malacca.
Know the shape of the country
Start with all fifty-five planning areas in the Urban Redevelopment Authorityโs five regions, then find the Straits of Johor, the Singapore Strait, the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea. Zoom in for the small central areas and the southern islands. Planning-area boundaries come from the URA Master Plan 2019 via data.gov.sg; water areas are generalised learning shapes, not maritime boundaries.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Landmark
Marina Bay Sands
Three towers joined by a sky park, with a mall, a casino and the ArtScience Museum below. The observation deck on the 56th floor is open to visitors who are not guests.
Sixteen sights across Singapore, from Marina Bay and the old ethnic quarters to the rainforest, wetlands and islands, with eight essential places to start. Priorities are editorial learning choices. Pins mark representative locations, not entrances, walking routes or guarantees of current access. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Malay with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Singapore, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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