تقع سنغافورة على شريط رملي مساحته 602 كلم مربع وتفتقر إلى الموارد الطبيعية.
Singapore, located on a 602 sq. km sandbar without natural resources, had a multi-ethnic population (Chinese, 75 per cent; Malay, 14 per cent; and Indian, 11 per cent) of 2 million in the late 1950s.