My next stop is Singapore which is located in Southeast Asia off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. The name Singapore is derived from the Malay word Singapura which means ‘Lion City’. It was named that because the person that founded and named Singapore, Sang Nila Utama, saw a animal he thought was a lion. In actuality there have never been lions here and the animal that was most like seen by him probably was a tiger. So you will see references to lions throughout the city because of this.