Singapore
 Key facts
POPULATION: (Census 2010) 5,076,700
AREA: 710 sq km
CAPITAL: Singapore
CURRENCY: Singapore dollar (SGD)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION TO GDP: -
HEAD OF STATE: President Sellapan R. Nathan
HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: democratic parliamentary republic
PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM: unicameral
STATE STRUCTURE: city state
LANGUAGES: English (official) Malay (national language), Mandarin, Tamil (recognised)
NATIONAL ELECTIONS: last: general 2006; presidential 2005 next: 2012
LOCAL ELECTIONS: There is no elected local government
Summary
Singapore is a democratic parliamentary republic with no local government.
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