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Singapore is one main island and more than sixty smaller ones, 744.3 square kilometres in total, about one degree of latitude north of the equator. Being a country and a city at once, it has no hinterland to escape to and no domestic journey to plan — the whole of it is inside a metro ride. What changes is the district: the colonial civic core and the river sit against the financial towers, Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Glam each hold their own quarter, and the reclaimed ground at Marina Bay carries the newest of it. The equatorial climate barely varies through the year, which removes the question of when to come.
Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.
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Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.
The Singapore Botanic Gardens is an 82-hectare botanic garden roughly ten minutes' walk from the Orchard Road shopping belt, open from 5am to midnight every day and free to enter.
Gardens by the Bay is a large public garden built on reclaimed land at Marina Bay, addressed at 18 Marina Gardens Drive and made up of three parts: Bay South, which holds almost everything a visitor comes for, Bay East…
Chinatown is a district of central Singapore rather than a single building, and it is entered from the pavement with no gate and no ticket.
National Gallery Singapore is an art museum installed inside two buildings that were, for most of their lives, the machinery of government: City Hall and the former Supreme Court, standing side by side on St Andrew's Road at the edge…
Sri Mariamman Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore and a working place of worship rather than a museum, run by the Hindu Endowments Board.
Singapore Zoo is the daytime wildlife park at Mandai Wildlife EAST, 80 Mandai Lake Road, on the forested north of the island beside the Upper Seletar Reservoir.
The National Museum of Singapore sits at 93 Stamford Road, on the slope below Fort Canning, and it is the country's oldest museum.
Jewel Changi Airport is a glass-and-steel dome at 78 Airport Boulevard, built over what used to be Terminal 1's open-air car park, and it is a destination in its own right rather than a place to wait for a flight.
Little India is a district of central Singapore rather than a building, an attraction with no gate, no ticket desk and no closing time, built around Serangoon Road and the grid of streets that runs off it towards Jalan Besar…
Esplanade — Theatres on the Bay is Singapore's national performing arts centre, at 1 Esplanade Drive on the northern shore of Marina Bay.
