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Singapore, formally the Democracy of Singapore, is a independent city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It deceits one grade north of the equator, at the southern slant of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia’s Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to the north . Singapore’s province consists of one main island along with 62 other atolls. Since independence, wide land retrieval has increased its total size by 23% (130 square kilometres or 50 square miles). The country is renowned for its transition from third world to first world in a single generation, underneath the leadership of its founding father, Lee Kuan Yew. Stamford Raffles initiated majestic Singapore in 1819 as a trading post of the British East India Company. After the company’s collapsein 1858, the islets were capitulated to the British Raj as a crown colony. All through the Second World War, Singapore was occupied by Japan. It expanded independence from the UK in 1963 by uniting with other former British territories to form Malaysia, but parted two years later over conceptual differences, becoming a sovereign nation in 1965. After initial years of commotion and despite lacking natural resources and a vicinity, the nation developed quickly as an Asian Tiger economy, based on external trade and its personnel.