Economy
Singapore has been one of the fastest countries to develop in the world. This economy all started out when Raffles. established what would be "Modern Singapore." In 1819. The town quickly grew to cities with the ports and the general store that Sir. Thomas Stanford Raffles had set up in hope for wealth. The town boomed with Singapore being close to many other islands and great for transport of goods. Below on the map is a picture of the Singapore harbor. Singapore, surprising for it's wealth, has few Natural resources. Their few resources are Petroleum which is refined and sent off to other countries and deep aquifers used for Bottled water plants. The main reason that Singapore has done so well is because of it being a way point for shipping.