Why Does the Whole World Sail Through Singapore?

You are standing on a low, swampy island covered in mangroves. No harbor, no towers, no name the world would know. In two hundred years, a huge share of everything the human race trades will pass within sight of this exact spot. So why here? In this video you stand on the bare mud that became Singapore and let the map explain it. You see how the island sits at the pinch of the Strait of Malacca, the funnel between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea that around a quarter of the world's seaborne trade is squeezed through. You watch Sir Stamford Raffles turn it into a free port in 1819, the Suez Canal of 1869 pour even more ships its way, and a tiny island with almost no resources grow into one of the richest places on Earth. If the map made it click for you, drop a like, tell me which city you want next in the comments, and subscribe for more on why the world's great cities stand exactly where they do. #Singapore #SingaporeHistory #StraitOfMalacca #Geography #Trade #CityHistory #UrbanHistory #HistoricalGeography #Megacity #WorldCities #CityOrigins #StamfordRaffles #SuezCanal #ShippingRoutes #Geopolitics #MapHistory #HistoryDocumentary #WhyHere #Asia #DoodleHistory