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Bukit Gombak is a subzone of Bukit Batok, Singapore. It is a hilly neighbourhood in the west-central area of the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore. In the Malay language , bukit means hill and gombak a bunch or collection of something.
Bukit Batok (IPA: / ˈ b ʊ k ɪ t ˌ b ɑː t oʊ k / BUUK-it BAH-tohk), often abbreviated as Bt Batok, is a planning area and matured residential town located along the eastern boundary of the West Region of Singapore. Bukit Batok statistically ranks in as the 25th largest, the 10th most populous and the 9th most densely populated planning ...
BBDC - Bukit Batok Driving Centre; BBFA - (internet slang) Bui Bui Forever Alone; BBT - Bukit Batok / Bubble Tea; BDK - Bedok; BDS - Bedok South Secondary School; BF - Buddhist Fellowship (Singapore) BGR - (slang) boy-girl relationship; BJ - Bugis Junction; BKE - Bukit Timah Expressway; BMT - Basic Military Training; BPGHS - Bukit Panjang ...
Bukit Gombak ('Hill a bunch or collection of something' in Indonesian and Malay) may refer to: Bukit Gombak , subzone of Bukit Batok, Singapore. Bukit Gombak MRT station , Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South line in Bukit Batok, Singapore.
Hillview is set amongst greenery encircled by the woodlands of Bukit Gombak to the west, Bukit Batok Nature Park to the south and Bukit Timah Nature Reserve to the east. Near it are several other nature parks, such as Hindhede Nature Park, Dairy Farm Nature Park, Chestnut Nature Park, and Rifle Range Nature Park.
Bukit Gombak Single Member Constituency (SMC) was a single member constituency in the western area in Singapore. The seat consisted of Bukit Gombak New Town which is made up of Bukit Gombak MRT station and a few private housing estates such as the Hillview area. It was formed in 1988 by carving out Bukit Batok SMC.
In 2001, Bukit Gombak SMC was absorbed into the GRC with the town council being Hong Kah Town Council. It was a huge constituency in terms of land area and covered the entire north-western region of Singapore and its territorial waters in the Straits of Johor .
After Singapore's independence in 1965, the government adopted new road-naming policies as part of its nation-building effort. [11] A Street Naming Advisory Committee was appointed in February 1967 by the Minister of Finance, [12] and priority was given to local names and Malay names, while names of prominent figures and British places and people were discouraged. [11]