On Sunday morning, Singapore's official government Facebook page, Gov.sg, posted this graphic that left us wondering what they're trying to get at:
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Posted by Gov.sg on Saturday, 7 November 2015
It captures the following factoids:
1. We have a total land area of 719.1 square kilometres in 2015 (for some perspective, that's still smaller than Penang and Malacca, and also Hong Kong. Although we are bigger than Monaco).
2. Every square kilometre of land we have is occupied by 7,697 people, making us the third most densely-populated country in the world (after Monaco and Macau, according to UN 2015 statistics).
3. We have many tall buildings — 4,657 completed high-rise ones (defined as being at least 35m or 12 storeys tall), to be exact, of which 200 are skyscrapers (more than 150m or 40 floors in height).
4. This puts us quite squarely in the Top 100 tallest buildings list (even though we didn't know there were such rankings, but apparently there are):
- We have three buildings in the 100 tallest office buildings list;
- We have four buildings in the 100 tallest hotels list; and
- We have five buildings in the 100 tallest residential buildings list.
How do you feel after learning these things? We'll let you decide, but here are the comments we found on the Facebook post sharing this graphic:
Screenshot from Gov.sg Facebook page
But here's what one person who shared it said:
Screenshot from Gov.sg Facebook page
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