Let’s compare the pair – Australia and Singapore.
- Singapore is geographically the smallest in the world; only spanning a minimal 42 km long and 23 km wide within a within a compact 716.1 km² (Martin & Ho, 2009). Australia is the world’s sixth largest country spanning a gigantic 7,692,024 km² and stretching a whopping 3860 kilometres from its most northerly point of Cape York to its most southerly point in Tasmania. and almost 4000 kilometres from it’s most western point Steep Point to it’s most eastern point of Cape Byron (Australian Travel Search, 1999).
- Singapore despite it’s size possesses a mammoth populous of approximately 5.3 million residents (Singapore Statistics, 2015). Australian on the other hand has a population of 23.8 million (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2015).
