Fact 1
Although the name of the city came from the founder thinking he saw a lion, it was actually a tiger he saw. It is likely that lions have never lived on the island.
Fact 2
After the 1870's, the city became a global center for rubber exports, with many immigrants working at the rubber plantations.
Fact 3
Owning a car in Singapore can be expensive, since you must pay one and one half times the vehicle's market value, to help curb pollution and traffic congestion. Since they're so high, approximately one in ten residents own a car.
Is a group of islands located in the Indian Ocean, situated off the Eastern coast of Africa at the northern mouth of the Mozambique Channel.
is a a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II.
Is a small enclave wedged between the states of Sarawak and Sabah on the Malaysian side of Borneo in Southeast Asia.
The capital city of Angola.
Is a scattered archipelago of about 1,000 mountainous islands and low-lying coral atolls situated in Melanesia that lies to the east of Papua New Guinea.
Is one of the most secretive and authoritarian nations and the least visited country in the world
A city-state and a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
A soverign city-state located on the French Riviera.
is the most populated city in the United States of America, and considered one of the world's cultural capitals.