Kota Education News

Selamat datang ke Singapore – You will see this message board when you get down from flight. This means ‘welcome to Singapore’ in Malay language. Yes Malay is national language of this country. There are 4 acceptable and official languages viz. English, Tamil, Great Mandarin and Malay.

Highly cosmopolitan city of Singapore is located off southern tip of the Malay Peninsula considered as a World class island country. It has a population of about 5 million, it is the 3rd richest country in the world based on the GDP per capita. It is also called as Singapura. Singapura is the Malay word. Singa means Lion and Pura refers to city. That is why Singapore is also called as Lion-City