Singapore How many Chinese are there in Singapore now?

Singapore citizens are mainly divided by race: 2.42 million Chinese (Han nationality), accounting for 74. 1%. Malay 440,000. Accounting for 13.4%. There are 300,000 Indians, accounting for 9.2%. The rest are European Asians/hybrids, accounting for 3.3%.

The reason why there are so many Chinese in Singapore is that Singapore is a Chinese-ruled area, which has triggered a large number of Chinese to move to Singapore from Malacca and Johor in Malaya. Gradually, Chinese Singaporeans accounted for the majority.

Singapore is a city-state, which originally meant lion city.

/kloc-In the 4th century, the prince of the "Death Kingdom of Sri Lanka" in Sumatra went to the island by boat and saw a strange animal on the shore. The local people told him that it was a lion. He thought it was a good sign and decided to build this place.

Singapore's "Singapura" is a homonym of the Sanskrit "Lion City", and early residents like to use Sanskrit as a place name. The lion is brave and vigorous, so it is natural to use it as a place name.

In the past, Singapore used "Singapore" as its common Chinese name in the early days of independence. Due to the influence of dialect habits brought by local overseas Chinese, many derived names appeared in the early days, such as "Silla", "Shige" and "Gaigang", and others were called "Xingzhou" and "Sing Tao" because of their small scale. It is also widely used to describe Singapore as "the country of stars" and "the lion city".