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Name Country View Population Mayor or governor or president Beijing: China: 21,542,000 (2018, municipality) Yin Yong: Pyongyang: North Korea: 2,870,000 (2016)
The English name of "Singapore" is an anglicisation of the native Malay name for the country, Singapura (pronounced), which was in turn derived from the Sanskrit word for 'lion city' (Sanskrit: सिंहपुर; romanised: Siṃhapura; Brahmi: 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀳𑀧𑀼𑀭; literally "lion city"; siṃha means 'lion', pura means 'city' or 'fortress'). [9]
Religion in Singapore is characterised by a wide variety of religious beliefs and practices due to its diverse ethnic mix of people originating from various parts of the world. A secular state , Singapore is commonly termed as a " melting pot " or " cultural mosaic " of various religious practices originating from different religions and ...
Singapore's indigenous culture originates primarily from the Austronesian people that arrived from the island of Taiwan, settling between 1500 and 1000 BCE.It was then influenced during the Middle Ages primarily by multiple Chinese dynasties such as the Ming and Qing, as well as by other Asian countries such as the Majapahit Empire, Tokugawa shogunate, and the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The Singapore dollar (sign: S$; code: SGD) is the official currency of the Republic of Singapore. It is divided into 100 cents (Malay: sen, Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn, Tamil: காசு, romanized: kācu). It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or S$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies.
Singapore's only school for Korean nationals, the Singapore Korean School, was established on 17 February 1993; as of 2018, it had 450 students at the pre-school, primary, middle and high school levels. [16] It conducts roughly two-thirds of its class hours in Korean, and one-third in English. [17]
Singaporeans are the citizens and nationals of the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. [5] Singapore is home to a people of a variety of ethno-racial-religious origins, with the city-state itself being a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-denominational, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic country.
A mudang holding a gut to placate the angry spirits of the dead.. With the division of Korea into two states in 1945, the communist north and the anti-communist south, the majority of the Korean Christian population that had been until then in the northern half of the peninsula, [12] fled to South Korea. [13]