Singapore - aerial view

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Approaching Singapore for a landing, looking down through rain clouds. Initially, one sees the Malaysian mainland and then a golf course in Singapore prior to landing at Changi Airport. Everything looks clean and green - so Singapore! Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It is also known as Lion city. The English name of Singapore is derived from the Malay Singapura, hence the customary reference to the nation as the Lion City. Lions probably never lived there; the beast seen by Sang Nila Utama, founder of ancient Singapore, who gave the city its name, was most likely a tiger. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest col