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Asian American Net: Republic of Singapore  (http://www.asianamerican.net/singapore.html)
Provides links to and general information on Singapore.

BBC Country Profile - Singapore (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1143240.stm)
Basic information about Singapore including an overview, facts, as well as related links.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Countries & Regions. Country Profiles: Singapore (http://www.fco.gov.uk/)
From the “Most Popular Sections” at the top of the page, pull down Country Profiles and scroll down for an alphabetical list of countries. Prepared by Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) desk officers, the profile provides a general overview of Singapore and includes information on the country's recent history, recent political developments, relations with the international community, and bilateral political and commercial relations with the UK, as well as links to other relevant pages on the FCO site.

Governments on the WWW: Singapore (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/sg.html)
Links to national institutions, representations in foreign countries, political parties, and more.

CIA World Factbook - Singapore (https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sn.html)
Links to national institutions, representations in foreign countries, political parties, and more.

Open Directory Project. Regional: Asia: Singapore (http://www.dmoz.com/Regional/Asia/Singapore/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines.

Singapore, a country study  (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/sgtoc.html)
Features "Singapore--A Country Study," published by the Federal Research Division of the U.S. Library of Congress. Highlights the geography, society, religions, education, industry, transportation, communications, government, and national security of Singapore.

Statistics Singapore  (http://www.singstat.gov.sg/)
Provided by the Singapore Department of Statistics, the central statistical authority responsible for official statistics on the Singapore economy and population, this website offers the latest economic indicators and other statistical data.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook - Singapore  (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sn.html)
Provides information on the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues relating to Singapore. In English. Updated annually.

U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Background Notes  (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on Singapore.

U.S. Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. Country Profile: Singapore (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Singapore.pdf)
Reference guide offering brief, summarized information on Singapore’s historical background, geographic, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.

U.S. Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. Singapore: a country study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/sgtoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 1991 an extensive handbook entitled Singapore: a country study. The text and selected graphics of the 328-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The read can search for words or variants of search words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, one section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file. (No revised editions are planned at present.)

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  May 23, 2007
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