Singapore in other languages: exonyms, official names, flag, districts
Singapore is Singapura in Malay, 新加坡 (Xīnjiāpō) in Chinese and சிங்கப்பூர் (Ciṅkappūr) in Tamil, officially the Republic of Singapore, with the ISO codes SG, SGP and 702. The name is listed here in 174 languages and variants, followed by the five districts.
Official languagesEnglish; Malay (bahasa Melayu), also the national language; Chinese (汉语, hànyǔ, or 中文, zhōngwén); Tamil (தமிழ், tamiḻ)
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- alpha-2
- SG
- alpha-3
- SGP
- numeric
- 702
Republic of Singapore
Republik Singapura
ريڤوبليك سيڠاڤورا
新加坡共和国
சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசுCiṅkappūr Kuṭiyaracu
- English
- SingaporeRepublic of Singapore
- Capital
- Singapore新加坡市Xīnjiāpō shì · Singapore
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026. Official and national languages: Wikipedia's Singapore, checked the same day. Flag after the Wikimedia Commons drawing.
Singapore in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Welsh, Danish, Finnish, Kven, West Frisian, Manx, Interlingua, Italian, Limburgish, Dutch, Norwegian, Novial, Northern Sami, Sardinian, Saterland Frisian, Swahili, Swedish | eng / cym / dan / fin / fkv / fry / glv / ina / ita / lim / nld / nor / nov / sme / srd / stq / swa / swe | Singapore | same as written |
| Aragonese, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Lower Sorbian, Estonian, Basque, Galician, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Lingala, Nahuatl, Polish, Quechua, Romansh, Romanian, Aromanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Võro, Zazaki, German, Luxembourgish, Low German | arg / ast / cat / ces / dsb / est / eus / glg / hrv / hsb / lin / nah / pol / que / roh / ron / rup / slk / slv / spa / tur / vor / zza / deu / ltz / nds | Singapur | same as written |
| Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Moldovan, Slovio, Turkmen | crh / gag / kaa / mol / slo / tuk | Singapur / Сингапур | Singapur |
| Faroese, Franco-Provençal, Ladin, Maltese, Occitan | fao / frp / lld / mlt / oci | Singapor | same as written |
| Cornish, French, Walloon | cor / fra / wln | Singapour | same as written |
| Indonesian, Javanese, Sicilian, Tetum | ind / jav / scn / tet | Singapura | same as written |
| Kinyarwanda, Kirundi | kin / run | Singapure | same as written |
| Afrikaans | afr | Singapoer | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Sinqapur / Сингапур | Sinqapur |
| Bambara | bam | Sɛngapuru | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Singapur / Сингапур / سٖىنغاپۆر | Singapur |
| Breton | bre | Singapoura | same as written |
| Kashubian | csb | Singapùr | same as written |
| Esperanto | epo | Singapuro | same as written |
| Friulian | fur | Singapôr | same as written |
| Scottish Gaelic | gla | Siongapòr | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Singeapór | same as written |
| Haitian Creole | hat | Sengapou | same as written |
| Hungarian | hun | Szingapúr | same as written |
| Igbo | ibo | Siṅgapọ | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Singapúr | same as written |
| Jersey Norman French | jnf | Sîngapour | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Sîngapûr | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Singapora, Singapura, Singapolis | same as written |
| Latvian | lav | Singapūra | same as written |
| Lithuanian | lit | Singapūras | same as written |
| Latgalian | ltg | Singapurs | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Singapora | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Singapura / سيڠاڤورا | Singapura |
| Norman French | nrm | Singapoure | same as written |
| Portuguese | por | Singapura, Cingapura | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Singapore / सिन्गापोरे | Singapore |
| Samogitian | smg | Singapūrs | same as written |
| Samoan | smo | Sigapoa | same as written |
| Somali | som | Singabuur | same as written |
| Albanian | sqi | Singapori | same as written |
| Tagalog | tgl | Singgapur | same as written |
| Tongan | ton | Singapoa | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Singapur / Сингапур / سىنگەپۇر | Singapur |
| Vietnamese | vie | Tân Gia Ba, Xing-ga-po | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Singapurän | same as written |
| Wolof | wol | Singapoor | same as written |
| Abkhaz, Abaza, Altai, Avar, Bulgarian, Chuvash, Kabardian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Meadow Mari, Macedonian, Mongolian, Ossetian, Russian, Yakut, Tuvan, Udmurt, Kalmyk | abk / abq / alt / ava / bul / chv / kbd / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / mhr / mkd / mon / oss / rus / sah / tyv / udm / xal | Сингапур | Singapur |
| Bashkir, Chechen, Serbian | bak / che / srp | Сингапур / Singapur | Singapur |
| Rusyn, Ukrainian | rue / ukr | Сінґапур | Singapur |
| Belarusian | bel | Сінгапур / Sinhapur, Сынгапур / Synhapur | Sinhapur, Synhapur |
| Kazakh | kaz | Сингапур / سينگاپۋر / Sïngapwr | Sïngapwr |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Сингапур / سئنگاپۇر / Singapur | Singapur |
| Kurdish (Caucasus) | kmr | Сингапур / Sîngapûr | Sîngapûr |
| Tatar | tat | Сингапур / Singapur / سىنگاپۇر | Singapur |
| Tajik | tgk | Сингапур / سینگپور / Singapur | Singapur |
| Arabic | ara | سنغافورة | Sinġāfūrâ |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | سینقاپور / Sinqapur | Sinqapur |
| Sorani Kurdish | ckb | سەنگاپور / Sengapur, سینگاپۆر / Sîngapor | Sengapur, Sîngapor |
| Persian | fas | سنگاپور / Sengâpur, سینگاپور / Singâpur | Sengâpur, Singâpur |
| Western Punjabi, Urdu | pnb / urd | سنگاپور | Singāpūr |
| Dari | prs | سنگاپور | Sengāpūr |
| Pashto | pus | سنګاپور | Singāpūr |
| Sindhi | snd | سنگاپور | Singāpūru |
| Uyghur | uig | سىنگاپۇر / Sin’gapur / Сингапур | Sin’gapur |
| Dhivehi | div | ސިނގަޕޫރު | Siṅgapūru |
| Hebrew | heb | סינגפור, סינגאפור | Sīngapūr, Sīngāpūr |
| Ladino | lad | סינגאפור / Singapur | Singapur |
| Yiddish | yid | סינגאַפּור | Singapur |
| Kabyle | kab | ⵙⵉⵏⴳⴰⵒⵓⵔ / Singapur | Singapur |
| Amharic | amh | ሲንጋፖር | Singapor |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell | Σιγκαπούρη | Sigkapoýrī |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell | Σιγγαπούρη | Siggapoýrī |
| Armenian | hye | Սինգապուր | Singapour |
| Georgian, Mingrelian | kat / xmf | სინგაპური | Singapuri |
| Laz | lzz | სინგაფური / Singapuri | Singapuri |
| Hindi, Marathi | hin / mar | सिंगापुर | Siṃgāpur |
| Nepali | nep | सिङ्गापुर | Siṅgāpur |
| Bengali | ben | সিঙ্গাপুর | Siṅgāpur |
| Gujarati | guj | સિંગાપોર | Siṃgāpor |
| Odia | ori | ସିଙ୍ଗାପୁର | Siṅgāpur |
| Punjabi | pan | ਸਿੰਘਾਪੁਰ | Sĩgʰāpur |
| Sinhala | sin | සිංගප්පූරුව | Siṃgappūruva |
| Kannada | kan | ಸಿಂಗಪುರ, ಸಿಂಗಾಪುರ್ | Siṃgapura, Siṃgāpur |
| Malayalam | mal | സിംഗപ്പൂർ, സിംഗപൂർ, സിംഗപ്പുർ | Siṃgappūr, Siṃgapūr, Siṃgappur |
| Tamil | tam | சிங்கப்பூர் | Ciṅkappūr |
| Telugu | tel | సింగపూర్, సింగపోర్ | Siṃgapūr, Siṃgapōr |
| Chinese | zho | 新加坡 | Xīnjiāpō |
| Cantonese | yue | 新加坡 | Sìnggabō |
| Japanese | jpn | シンガポール | Shingapōru |
| Korean | kor | 싱가포르 | Singgaporeu |
| Tibetan | bod | སེང་ག་ཕོར། | Seṅ.ga.pʰor |
| Burmese | mya | စင်ကာပူ | Sĩkapu |
| Thai | tha | สิงคโปร์ | Siṅkʰapō[r] |
| Lao | lao | ສິງກະໂປ | Siṅkapō |
| Khmer | khm | សាំងហ្គាពួរ, សាំងកាប៉ូរ, សឹង្ហបូរី, សិង្ហបុរី | Sāṃṅhkāpuar, Sāṃkābūr, Sʉṅhabūrī, Siṅhaburī |
Malay and Indonesian write Singapura, the form behind most names in the region; Vietnamese has Tân Gia Ba beside Xing-ga-po, and Khmer lists four spellings.
Singapura, Xīnjiāpō, Ciṅkappūr
Singapore has four official languages, and the state name exists in each: Republic of Singapore, Republik Singapura, 新加坡共和国 and சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு (Ciṅkappūr Kuṭiyaracu). Malay is also the national language, and the anthem, Majulah Singapura by Zubir Said, adopted on 11 November 1959, is sung in Malay. Malay can be written in Jawi, an Arabic-based script, as سيڠاڤورا.
The name goes back through Malay Singapura to the Sanskrit सिंहपुर (Siṃhapura), lion city. Languages of the region keep that form: Indonesian and Javanese say Singapura, Hindi सिंगापुर (Siṃgāpur), and Thai สิงคโปร์. Chinese writes the sound as 新加坡 (Xīnjiāpō) and Japanese as シンガポール (Shingapōru).
Elsewhere the spelling adapts lightly: Singapur in Spanish, Czech, German and Russian Сингапур, Singapour in French, Szingapúr in Hungarian. City and state share one name, so a separate capital list would repeat the same words; the Chinese form 新加坡市 (Xīnjiāpō shì) adds the word for city.
The five districts of Singapore in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil
ISO 3166-2:SG has coded five districts since November 2007, SG-01 to SG-05. They are the districts of the Community Development Councils, which run social and community programmes; Singapore has no provinces and no district capitals.
| ISO 3166-2 | Malay | Chinese | Tamil | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts5 | ||||||
| SG-01 | Pusat Singapura | 新加坡中部 | மத்திய சிங்கப்பூர் | Central Singapore | ||
| SG-02 | Timur laut | 东北 | வடகிழக்கு | North East | ||
| SG-03 | Barat laut | 西北 | வடமேற்கு | North West | ||
| SG-04 | Tenggara | 东南 | தென்கிழக்கு | South East | ||
| SG-05 | Barat daya | 西南 | தென்மேற்கு | South West | ||
Codes and English names: ISO 3166-2:SG on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, as tabulated in Wikipedia's ISO 3166-2:SG, checked 28 October 2026. ISO publishes the English names only; the Malay, Chinese and Tamil names are those given for reference in the same Wikipedia table. Council history: Wikipedia's Community Development Council, checked the same day.
Five districts without capitals
The Community Development Councils were set up in 1997, nine at first, and reduced to five in 2001. Their borders follow groups of electoral constituencies and change with general elections, so the five ISO districts describe administrative areas, not fixed regions.
Questions about the names of Singapore
What is Singapore called in Chinese?
新加坡 (Xīnjiāpō); the Republic of Singapore is 新加坡共和国.
What does Singapura mean?
Lion city. The Malay name comes from the Sanskrit सिंहपुर (Siṃhapura).
What are the ISO codes of Singapore?
SG (alpha-2), SGP (alpha-3) and 702 (numeric) in ISO 3166-1; the five districts are SG-01 to SG-05.