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Area (km 2) Population [7] Density (/km 2) Subzones Ang Mo Kio: 宏茂桥 Hóngmàoqiáo ஆங் மோ கியோ North-East: 13.94 161,000 13,400 12 Bedok * 勿洛 Wùluò பிடோக் East: 21.69 278,270 13,000 8 Bishan: 碧山 Bìshān பீஷான் Central: 7.62 85,680 12,000 3 Boon Lay: 文礼 Wénlǐ பூன் லே ...
The Central Area, also called the City Area, and informally The City, is the main commercial and financial city centre of Singapore.Located in the south-eastern part of the Central Region, the Central Area consists of eleven constituent planning areas: the Downtown Core, Marina East, Marina South, the Museum Planning Area, Newton, Orchard, Outram, River Valley, Rochor, the Singapore River and ...
Singapore has reclaimed land with earth obtained from its own hills, the seabed, and neighboring countries. As a result, Singapore's land area has grown from 581.5 km 2 in the 1960s to 725.7 km 2 today, and will increase slightly more due to the construction of sea polder and barrage to deal with the ever-rising sea level.
This is a list of places in Singapore based on the planning areas and their constituent subzones as designated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Based on the latest URA Master Plan in 2019, the country is divided into 5 regions , which are further subdivided into 55 planning areas , and finally subdivided into a total of 332 subzones.
The largest region in terms of area is the West Region with 218.4 km 2 (84.3 sq mi), while the Central Region is the most populous with an estimated population of 922,980 inhabitants in the area in 2019. [3] Singapore is governed as a unitary state without provinces or states. While used by some governmental organizations, these regions are not ...
One of the original HDB flats constructed in 1960, in July 2021.. On the Housing & Development Board (HDB)'s formation, it announced plans to build over 50,000 flats, mostly in the city, under a five-year scheme, [7] and found ways to build flats as cheaply as possible so that the poor could afford to stay in them. [8]
Tengah / ˈ t ə ŋ ɑː / is a planning area and HDB town located within the West Region of Singapore. [3] It is bound by Choa Chu Kang to the northeast, Jurong East and Jurong West to the south, Bukit Batok to the east, and the Western Water Catchment to its west and north.
There was also public housing built by the Housing Development Board (HDB) around 1979 at the north end of Hillview, with a community centre, a wet market, a hawker centre and some neighbourhood shops. In 1999, the government announced that the HDB estate would be relocated to Bukit Gombak via the largest Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme ...