The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SINGAPORE
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More clues leading to the result SINGAPORE
- Give voice with opera cast in Asian city
- Country music performer pitiful to hear?
- State in “wrong” sort of Europe, not EU country
- Fashionable clothing outlet in touchy Southeast Asian country
- No pigs are running around this country
- Painful orbiting in space for country
- Thus drinking in break on island republic
- Nation in hole: upset about that!
- Country crooner needy for listeners
- Entertain, having been given an opening in the big city
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