Quality of life comparison
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If you lived in Singapore instead of British Indian Ocean Territory, you would:
Geography
see 72.3% less coastline
British Indian Ocean Territory has a total of 698 km of coastline. In Singapore, that number is 193 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
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Singapore: At a glance
Singapore is a sovereign country in East/Southeast Asia, with a total land area of approximately 709 sq km. Singapore was founded as a British trading colony in 1819. It joined the Malaysian Federation in 1963 but separated two years later and became independent. Singapore subsequently became one of the world's most prosperous countries with strong international trading links (its port is one of the world's busiest in terms of tonnage handled) and with per capita GDP equal to that of the leading nations of Western Europe.
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