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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee
Singapore is written in katakana.
Singapore = シンガポ－ル
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there is indeed a kanji version, pronounced the same way:
新嘉坡
which happens to be quite similar to the chinese for the country:
新加坡
interesting to note that both 加 and 嘉 have the same pronunciation of 'jiā' in chinese also both these characters can be pronounced as か in Japanese (音読み), and therefore が, so it makes me wonder why the Japanese changed the middle character.