Singapore lies 137 km north of Boston.
It lies one degree -LRB- 137 km -RRB- north of the equator , at the southern tip of peninsular Malaysia , with Indonesia 's Riau Islands to the south .	equator	equator	peninsular Malaysia	peninsular Malaysia	Indonesia	Indonesia	Riau Islands	Riau Islands	Malaysia	Malaysia
Singapore -LRB- -LSB- sgpr -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Republic of Singapore , sometimes referred to as the Lion City , the Garden City or the Little Red Dot , is a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia .	city-state	city-state	Little Red Dot	Little Red Dot	sovereign city-state	sovereign city-state	Southeast Asia	Southeast Asia
Boston -LRB- pronounced -LSB- bstn -RSB- -RRB- is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States .	Commonwealth of Massachusetts	Commonwealth of Massachusetts	capital	list of capitals in the United States	most populous city	list of U.S. states' largest cities by population	Commonwealth	Commonwealth (U.S. state)	Massachusetts	Massachusetts	United States	United States
