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The state in Southeast Asia, located on the island of Singapore and the surrounding small islands. And the island, and the state and its capital is called the same - Singapore. In translation the name means "Lion City" and is connected with a beautiful ancient tradition. For several centuries, there existed trade settlements of Chinese, he was a vassal territory of the Indonesian sultans, a colony of Portugal and Holland. In the XIX century, newly built by the British, Singapore quickly became a developed country. In 1965, gained independence. Due to the strategic situation in the Malacca Strait has become one of the most rapidly developing countries in the world. Today - it is the largest metropolitan area in South-East Asia, the center of global importance on the financial operations and freight turnover, number of banks and transnational corporations. A special place is occupied by the production of high technology - computers, telecommunications, lasers, optics, and various types of weapons. Singapore - a super-modern skyscrapers and old neighborhoods with small houses, luxury supermarkets and the tiny Chinese shops, busy streets and quiet surrounding parks and gardens of orchids, the embankments with its numerous restaurants where the kitchen provided virtually all the countries of the world, the temples and the gold-domed mosque. You will win the national harmony of tradition and modernity, East and West, sophistication and simplicity.