Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

It lies about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Straits of Malacca to the west, the Riau Islands (Indonesia) to the south, and the South China Sea to the east.

The country’s territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying isle