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Which city is called ‘Pearl of the Orient’?
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Singapore
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Madagascar
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Damascus
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Munabai
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is astonishing, in retrospect, that Lee’s model, when Singapore was on the verge of independence, was the newly free Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Then known as the “Pearl of the Orient”, the island nation had thrown off its colonial yoke without anything like the trauma and turmoil witnessed in India.
Detailed explanation-3: -Manila was known as the ‘Pearl of the Orient.
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