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The causeway (1,038 m in length) was designed by Coode, Fizmaurice, Wilson and Mitchell of Westminster and constructed by Topham, Jones & Railton Ltd of London. It was started in 1909 as a railway link by Johor State Railway to connect Johor Bahru to Singapore, then the administrative headquarters of British interests in Southeast Asia.
Dikir barat reached Singapore's native Malay population as a form of choral performance art despite being a particular tradition of northeastern Malay Peninsula, specifically Patani, Kelantan and Terengganu [1] — the adjective barat ('west') indicated its possible origins from Siam west of the kingdom; [2] whereas Singapore's location way south on the Malacca and Singapore straits was ...
Singapore is a major international transport hub in Asia, serving some of the busiest sea and air trade routes. Changi Airport is an aviation centre for Southeast Asia and a stopover on Qantas' Kangaroo Route between Sydney and London. [346] There are two civilian airports in Singapore, Changi Airport and Seletar Airport.
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.
Singapore – a sovereign republic comprising the main island of Singapore and smaller outlying islands which are located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia. [1] Singapore lies 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator , south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia 's Riau Islands and is in-between ...
With a total land area of 201.3 km 2 (77.7 sq mi), the region is situated on the western corner of Singapore Island, bordering the North Region to the north and east, Central Region to the south-east and the Straits of Johor to the west.
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 ...
When Stamford Raffles, who founded Singapore in 1819, returned to the colony, he was dissatisfied with the haphazard development he encountered.At this time, Singapore was considered the trading factory and warehouse of the British East India Company.