Singapore, an island city-state off southern Malaysia, is a global financial center with a tropical climate and multicultural population. Since being founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819, it was a colony and port of the British Empire before its independence from the Crown in 1963. Then, it joined Malaysia as a southern state to its larger neighbour before gaining true independence as a nation on its own in 1965.
Throughout the tumultuous decades, Singapore has risen from a poverty stricken nation into a leading Asian Tiger and is now one of the most economically strong countries globally
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