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Singapore has reclaimed land with earth obtained from its own hills, the seabed, and neighboring countries. As a result, Singapore's land area has grown from 581.5 km 2 in the 1960s to 725.7 km 2 today, and will increase slightly more due to the construction of sea polder and barrage to deal with the ever-rising sea level.
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The site's most popular quiz, the "Countries of the World Quiz", has been played over 35 million times. [29] The site has also been mentioned in the Hindustan Times as a "great trivia hotspot", [ 30 ] and some of its geography quizzes have been featured in various YouTube videos, including one by British YouTuber GeoWizard .
Singapore Airlines was ranked as Asia's most-admired company, and the world's 19th most-admired company in 2015 by Fortune ' s annual "50 most admired companies in the world" industry surveys. Other awards it has received include the US-based Travel + Leisure ' s Best International Airline award, which it has won for 20 consecutive years.
These varying definitions are not generally reflected in the map of Asia as a whole; for example, Egypt is typically included in the Middle East, but not in Asia, even though the bulk of the Middle East is in Asia. The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Bab-el-Mandeb.
An enlargeable British Military map of Singapore dated 1945. Singapore is: an island country made up of 63 islands; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. Southeast Asia. Indochina; Maritime Southeast Asia; Time zone: Singapore Standard Time = ASEAN Common Time ; Extreme points of Singapore: High: Bukit Timah 163. ...
Asia (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈ eɪ ʃ ə / AY-shə) is the largest continent [note 1] [10] [11] in the world by both land area and population. [11] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, [note 2] about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
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