SINGAPORE

Smallest member state in ASEAN

HEAD OF GOVERNMENT
Head of State of Singapore is Tony Tan Keng Yam.
He is the seventh President of Singapore in office
since 2011

FORM OF GOVERNMENT
PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM

CAPITAL CITY
Singapore is a city-state (it's actually one of the few remaining citystates in the world). It is both a country and a city.

CURRENCY
The Singapore Dollar is the official
currency of Singapore.

LANGUAGES

Malay

Tamil

Mandarin
Chinese

English

FLAG
The red represents universal
brotherhood and equality of man
and the white stands for purity and
virtue.
The crescent moon, symbolizes the
young nation of Singapore on the
rise and the five stars represent the
country's ideals of democracy,
peace, progress, justice and
equality.

MAJOR RELIGION
The most followed religion
is Buddhism with 34%

MAJOR RESOURCES/PRODUCTS
Petroleum chemicals, textiles, ships,

NATIONAL DAY
9 August (is celebrated every year,in commemoration of
Singapores independence from Malaysia in 1965)

MAJOR HOLIDAYS
* 21 May Vesak Day (also known as Buddha
Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday observed
traditionally by Buddhists

NATION FOOD
LAKSA
A noodle soup (coconut milk), like Thailand's Khao Soi. Has flavors of
coconut milk soup with shrimp and peppers topped with cooked
scallops are among the many types either.

NATION FLOWER
Vanda (Miss Joaquim)
also known as the Singapore Orchid and
the Princess Aloha Orchid

NATION CLOTHES
Singapore does not have a national dress of their own.
Since Singapore is divided into four main ethnic
Chinese, Malay, Indian and European, each of them has its own national dress.