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C. There are 17,504 officially listed islands within the territory of the Republic of Indonesia, the world's largest island country and fourth most populous nation with more than 261 million people.
B. Britain established a trading post on the main island of Singapore in 1819, and it became a British colony in 1824.
A. When the British arrived, there were only about a thousand people on the main island, mostly indigenous Malays and a handful of Chinese. By 1860, half the 80,000 people were Chinese. Today, 74.3% of the 5.8 million people in Singapore are ethnic Chinese, 13.4% are Malay, 9% are Indian and 3.2% are other ethnic groups.
D. Singapore is the seventh richest nation in the world with $90,500 in gross domestic product for every person, according to the CIA World Factbook. That compares with $59,500 for the United States, $39,400 for South Korea and $1,700 for North Korea.