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Capital: Singapore 2,987,000 (1994 est.) Area: 646,1 sq km (249,5 sq mi) Form of government Unitary Multiparty Republic with one legislative house (Parliament) GDP per capita Purchasing power parity-$27,800 (1999 est.) Population 4,151,264 (July 2000 est.) Ethnic composition Chinese - 76.4% Malay - 14.9% Indian - 6.4% Other - 2.3% Official Language(s) Mandarin (Chinese); Malay; Tamil; English Malay is the national language and English is the language of administration. Minority Language(s) Various Chinese dialects including Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Hakka, Hainanese and Foochow. Aside from Tamil, some other languages spoken by the Indian minority are Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu, Hindi and Bengali. |
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