Singapore

Singapore uses the Singapore Dollar (SGD) as currency, the national stock exchange is the Singapore Commodity Exchange (SICOM) and SGX - Singapore Exchange (Stock Exchange of Singapore and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange), and the country's main economic factors are electronics, chemicals, financial services, oil drilling equipment, petroleum refining, rubber processing and rubber products, processed food and beverages, ship repair, offshore platform construction, life sciences and entrepot trade. The country is located is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. Singapore is highly urbanised but almost half of the country is covered by greenery. More land is being created for development through land reclamation.