Amber Road is an L-shaped road that connects the junction of Haig Road and Mountbatten Road to Tanjong Katong Road. The road was named after Amber Elias, an early 20th-century property owner. Popular landmarks on this road include the Chinese Swimming Club.
Anson Road, located in the Central Business District, it begins near a carpark around Keppel Road then it bifurcates into two roads, one road merges into Keppel Road while the other proceeds as a one-way road to connect to the junction of Robinson Road and Maxwell ...
Beach Road, street, originally called Beach Street, bounded by North Bridge Road, Tan Quee Lan Street, Beach Road and Seah Street, was historically designated a part of the European Town. Once lined with beautiful villas on its western side, today Beach Road marks ...
Boat Quay, a river embankment on the Singapore River, is one of the oldest and most historical areas in the Central Region. From early times, and for more than 150 years, warehouses (or godowns) thriving with economic activity, lined the banks of North and South ...
The Cairnhill estate is a sub-zone in the Newton area of the Central Region. Charles Carnie had a nutmeg plantation and built his residence on the hill in 1840. The hill was named Carnie's Hill. From the turn of the 20th century, Cairnhill was seen as an ideal ...
Chin Chew Street, in Chinatown, connects South Bridge Road and China Street. This was an Indian residential area in the 1820s. Later it became synonymous with the Samsui women who made this street their living quarters.
Christmas Island, located in the Indian Ocean, between latitude 10 degrees 25' and 10 degrees 34' south, and longitude 105 degrees 34', 360 km south of Java, near the Cocos-Keeling Islands and 1,400 km north-west Australia (800 miles south of Singapore). Currently ...
Christmas Island's flora and fauna is unique to the island because of its isolation and limited habitation by humans until the late 19th century.
Coney Island, island, is located off the coast of the north-east region of Singapore. Its original name was Pulau Serangoon. In early colonial times, Coney Island was the name given to another island -- the 'rabbit shaped' Pulau Satumu on which Raffles Lighthouse ...
Craig Road begins from the junction of Neil Road and Keong Saik Road and ends at Tanjong Pagar Road. Named after Captain James Craig, an officer in the Merchant Service Guild and member of Freemason's Zetland Lodge, the road was the living quarters of Chinatown's ...
Urban planning in Singapore has its beginnings in the 1820s, when Sir Stamford Raffles implemented a land-use plan later known as the Raffles Town Plan. However, for most of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, Singapore's physical growth was ...
A list of the islands of Singapore and their land size in hectares are outlined here.
Jurong was a mangrove swamp before it was developed into an industrial estate in 1961. Residential and recreational amenties were built in the next two decades to attract workers and to facilitate the expansion of the estate. Jurong has since developed into a self-sufficient ...
Jurong Island was officially declared opened by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on 14 October 2000. The opening marks the completion of a plan by the government to develop Jurong Island into a premier hub for the chemical industry in the Asia Pacific. So far, the ...
Singapore's first industrial estate is in Jurong. Before its transformation into an industrial hub, Jurong was a hilly landscape covered with forest, as well as rivers swarmed with crocodiles. In addition, there were also fish and prawn ponds. In June 1961, 6 500 ...
Kallang, estate, located within the Central Region, and bounded by the north-eastern boundary of the Central Area, the Central Expressway, the Pan Island Expressway, the proposed Kallang Expressway, Mountbatten Road and the East Coast Parkway; covering 9 subzones, ...
Kampong Chai Chee, estate, part of Bedok area, located within the East Region of Singapore. Chai Chee was originally a village of attap-hut dwellings surrounded by vast plantations. It is today an HDB Estate and home to several large electronics factories.
Kim Seng Constituency, estate, in the Bukit Merah area, located within the Central Region. It was named after Tan Kim Seng, a successful businessman, philanthropist and community leader. Today, the boundaries of Kim Seng division are: Indus Road and Alexandra Canal ...
Kreta Ayer Road, a one-way road in the heart of Chinatown, connects Neil Road to New Bridge Road. The road is historically important as it was the prosperous half, the 'greater town district', of 19th century Chinatown.
Kusu Island, island, located 5.6 km south-west of Singapore. A Chinese Temple and a Malay Keramat ("shrine") attracts thousands of multi-religious pilgrims annually, especially on the 9th lunar month. Original it was named Pulau Sakijang Pelepah, and was sometimes ...
Liu Thai Ker (b.23 February 1938 Muar, Johor, Malaysia -) is noted for his influence on Singapore's urban landscape as head of the Housing Development Board (HDB) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Trained as an architect, Thai Ker's keen sense of the arts ...
Mountbatten estate, with a total area of 161 ha, is one of 5 subzones in the Marine Parade area, located within the central region. It is named after Lord Louis Mountbatten who later became Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Today Mountbatten estate is described as being ...
Mouth of the Singapore River, river/estate, located within the Central Region. The early inhabitants around the river mouth were the Orang Laut or "Sea Gypsies", and Malays. In the early 1800s, Temenggong Abdul Rahman, had his settlement near the river mouth; after ...
Nankin Street, a one-way street in Chinatown, connects South Bridge Road to China Street. Named after the city of Nanking in China, it was associated with Samsui women who lived here and tinsmiths who set up shop on this street during the 19th century.
Neil Road, a one-way road, begins from South Bridge Road and ends at two points -- one leads to the New Bridge Road and the other to the junction of New Bridge Road, Eu Tong Sen Street and Kampong Bahru Road. Originally known as Silat, Selat or Salat Road, it was ...
Pedra Branca, island, situated 54 km off the mainland of Singapore, 46km east of Changi Point, located at the eastern entrance to the Singapore Strait. The island is a reef of white stone-rocks of granite, though corals have encrusted those below sea-level. On ...
A tiny islet, Pulau Anak Bukom (which means 'child of Bukom' in Malay) used to lie next to its much larger and heavily industrialised parent, Pulau Bukom. Through land reclamation, it was merged with its parent, on which the enormous Shell oil refinery is located. ...
Pulau Berkas is a small island on the east of Pulau Pawai, and north of Pulau Senang, a part of the most southerly group of Singapore's southern islands. ‘Pulau’ is Malay for island or an isolated piece of rising ground in the sea. The word ‘berkas’ is suggestive ...
Pulau Biola is a tiny islet in the southern extremities of the southern islands of Singapore, just above the international boundary, sandwiched tightly between Pulau Senang to its north, and the Raffles Lighthouse on Pulau Satumu to its south. With a land area ...
Pulau Brani, island, south of the Bukit Merah area, is located south of the Central Region. In Malay, Pulau Brani means "Isle of the Brave". The island was once the home of the Orang Laut. For a while Brani island had a Brick Kiln, a coal depot, a tin smelting ...
Pulau Bukom, also spelt Bukum is an island located 6.5 km southwest of Singapore. It is significant for housing Singapore's first petroleum tank depot and oil refinery. It was the target of terrorists in 1974 who thereafter gained the nickname Bukom Bombers.
Pulau Busing is the westernmost major island in the Bukom group of islands, with a land area of 4.4 hectares before reclamation. It has seen major land reclamation to its southern shores. Heavily industrialised, the island is home to oil and chemical storage facilities, ...
Pulau Keppel, an island south of Singapore, lies between Sentosa and the mainland Singapore. It is used for shipbuilding and repairs by the Keppel Shipyard.
Pulau Meskol is a small island of 6.1 hectres in the Ayer Chawan group of islands lying in a cluster south of industrialised Jurong on the Singapore mainland. It was merged with neighbouring islands to form the gigantic Jurong Island, on which the petrochemical ...
Pulau Palawan is an islet lying off the southern coast of Sentosa Island. Originally a reef called Serembu Palawan, its name was changed to Pulau Palawan after it was reclaimed. Pulau Palawan is not physically connected to Sentosa, and should not to be mistaken ...
Pulau Pawai, an island south-west of Singapore, is one of three islands kept exclusively for live-firing military exercises.
Pulau Satumu, (sometimes spelt Setamu or Setumu or Situmbu) island, lies 23 km (15 miles) south-west of Singapore, at the western entrance of Singapore Straits. Satumu is one of Singapore's off-shore islands on which Raffles Lighthouse stands. Colonialists named ...
Pulau Seking (also spelt Sekeng, Sakeng), island is located south of Pulau Bukom to the south of Singapore. Except for land reclamation, the island is not developed, and still has its original kampung with a community centre and school. This island comes within ...
Pulau Semakau is one of the southern islands off the main island of Singapore. It once occupied an area of about 70 ha, with a coastline of more than 3 km. However, the shape and size of the island were altered after plans were announced in the late 1980s to dump ...
Pulau Senang island, is located 15 miles south of Singapore, in shark-infested waters. In 1960, the island was used in a penal reform experiment. Riots resulted in the death of the prison officer Daniel Stanley Dutton (nicknamed 'The Laughing Tiger') and three ...
Pulau Sudong island located south-west of Singapore, is one of three islands kept exclusively for live-firing military exercises. Twice in its history, there had been speculation that the island was sinking, a rumour that created panic amongst the few inhabitants ...
Pulau Tekong, is an island off the north-eastern coast of Singapore, with Selat Johore to the north and Serangoon Harbour to the south. There were originally two islands - the larger called Pulau Tekong, and the smaller Pulau Tekong Kechil, but land reclamation ...
Pulau Tekong Besar was the biggest natural offshore island in Singapore. It is situated at the northeastern coast of the mainland. There was Pulau Tekong Kecil which is a much smaller island merged with Pulau Tekong Besar in the mid 1990s. The first reclamation ...
Pulau Ubin, (Pulo Obin) island, located in the north-eastern coast of Singapore, with Selat Johore to the north and Serangoon Harbour to the south. Its name is derived from its original Malay name, Pulau Batu Jubin meaning "Island of Granite Stones". Granite quarries ...
The Raffles Town Plan focused on the area which is now Downtown Singapore, spanning Telok Ayer bay to the Kallang River area, particularly around the Singapore River. Through the Town Planning Committee, Sir Stamford Raffles, laid out plans with great foresight ...
Sengkang, estate located within the North-East Region. Sengkang derived its name from a road called Lorong Sengkang, off Lorong Buangkok.
Sentosa, island, is the largest of Singapore's southern Islands. It functioned as an island fortress and a military base in colonial times, and with the Japanese occupation during World War II, it became a prisoner-of-war camp. Today, the island is a nature and ...
Singapore has had several major time adjustments to accommodate both political and economic changes. The time adjustments varied between seven and a half hours to nine hours ahead of GMT. The changes were made in 1942, during the Japanese occupation to align with ...
Recognising the importance of family planning to the national development of Singapore, the government organised the first national family planning campaign in 1960. The campaign aimed to raise awareness of family planning and the disadvantages of having large ...
Family planning services were first introduced to the Singapore population following the establishment of the Singapore Family Planning Association in 1949. A pioneering group of volunteers worked to introduce family planning services at municipal infant welfare ...
Sisters' Islands, two islands located in the south of Singapore. The name of the islands arose from a legend in which two very close sisters had drowned, and two islands rose up at the spot of the tragedy. The islands are individually known as Pulau Subar Darat ...
St John's Island, southern island, famous for having been a penal settlement but now a holiday resort.
Sungei Road begins at the junction of Selegie Road and Serangoon Road and runs along the Rochor Canal. Literally translated, it means "River Road", a reference to Rochor River that flowed alongside the road. This road is parallel to the Rochor Canal Road. From ...
Tanglin Estate, estate, is located in the Central region next to Orchard Road. It is bounded by Bukit Timah Road to the north, Kay Siang Road in the south and Farrer Road to the west. Upmarket residences and consulates dot the estate.
Telok Ayer Street extends from Market Street to Anson Road. Telok Ayer was designated a Chinese district by Raffles in 1822 and gained prominence in the 1820s because it served as the landing ground for the early immigrants. This also led to a concentration of ...
Urban planning in Singapore aims to optimise the use of the country's scarce land resources for the diverse needs of both current and future generations of residents. It involves allocating land for competing uses such as housing, commerce, industry, transport, ...
Woodlands derives its name, possibly from the rubber trees that once dominated the landscape in the past. Its name is also reminiscent of a rural outpost in urban Singapore. Today, however, Woodlands is one of the most densely populated housing and industrial estates ...
Yan Kit Road, a one-way street, connects Craig Road to Cantonment Road. Named after a noted Dentist Look Yan Kit, it lies in the Central Business District and is also a part of Chinatown. It was considered a safe residential area in the late 19th and early 20th ...
Yio Chu Kang Road, a major road in the north, connecting Upper Thomson Road to Upper Serangoon Road. Associated with gambier and pepper plantations and kampongs or villages in the 19th century, the road today reflects the urban development of 20th century Singapore. ...
Yishun New Town, one of the first comprehensive urban developments in the northern part of Singapore, is located within Yishun Ring Road. The road, a two-way street, is a self-contained road that begins and ends within itself in a distorted circular structure. ...