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When Choa Chu Kang Town was developed by expanding Teck Whye Estate near the other end of Choa Chu Kang Road at its junction with Upper Bukit Timah Road and Woodlands Road to the north, the place name began to be applied to a much larger area, especially when political divisions like the Choa Chu Kang ward applied to the entire northwest sector ...
Place names that are associated with the Kangchu system are named after former place features such as settlements, (or Chu Kang, Chinese: 厝港), [fn 1] river bases (or Kangkar, Chinese: 港脚) and port (or Kang, Chinese: 港). These terminologies are of Chinese origins, and draws its phonology from the Teochew dialect. [2]
The older spelling of Chua Chu Kang (Chinese: 蔡厝港; pinyin: Càicuògǎng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhoà-chhù-káng), a suburban area and village in western Singapore, is now more commonly spelled as Choa Chu Kang after the new town by the same name took its spelling from Choa Chu Kang Road, itself an anomaly as the village and the surrounding ...
Chu was the clan name of the first headman of the plantations in the area. These kangchus gave rise to modern place names such as Choa Chu Kang, Lim Chu Kang and Yio Chu Kang, all of which were plantation areas before urban redevelopment. Early Chinese immigrants clustered themselves to form clan and language associations.
The word 'Chu' itself means "owner" or "land". The clan was hence named Kangchu because it was controlled by the Chu clan and they were situated around a river. The north of Singapore was split and given to different leaders of the Kangchu clan, and they took the name of the leader. Hence the names Yio Chu Kang, Lim Chu Kang and Choa Chu Kang.
Chinatown [a] is a subzone and ethnic enclave located within the Outram district in the Central Area of Singapore.Featuring distinctly Chinese cultural elements, Chinatown has had a historically concentrated ethnic Chinese population.
Choa Chu Kang (or Chua Chu Kang) is a planning area and residential town situated in the West Region of Singapore.. Choa Chu Kang or Chua Chu Kang may also refer to: . Chua Chu Kang Group Representation Constituency, a four-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore
Lim Chu Kang is served by two main roads known as Lim Chu Kang Road and Old Choa Chu Kang Road. As this area is still undeveloped, its land use primarily consists of military training areas, agriculture , farms , the only remaining cemeteries in Singapore (due to exhumations in others to make way for new developments) and a major cinerarium .