Tanglin
Tanglin is a planning area located within the Central Region of Singapore. Tanglin is located west of Newton, Orchard, River Valley and Singapore River, south of Novena, east of Bukit Timah, northeast of Queenstown and north of Bukit Merah.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 21,800 residents
- Description: planning area in Central Area, Singapore
- Also known as: “City West”, “Dōnglíng”, and “Tanglin Singapore”
- Historically known as: “Tang-lêng”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Singapore Botanic Gardens and Gleneagles Hospital.
Singapore Botanic Gardens
Park
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The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 167-year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of the Orchard Road shopping district in Singapore. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Gleneagles Hospital
Hospital
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Gleneagles Hospital is a private hospital on Napier Road, Singapore, next to Napier MRT station. It provides medical and surgical services. It is part of Parkway Pantai, a subsidiary of the Malaysian–Singaporean private healthcare group IHH Healthcare.
Napier
Metro station
Photo: ZKang123, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Napier MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast Line. Located in Tanglin, Singapore, the station is at the junction of Napier Road, Holland Road and Cluny Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tyersall Park and Alexandra North.
Tyersall Park
Neighborhood
Tyersall Park is an estate in Singapore, bound by Holland Road and Tyersall Avenue, and near the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Previously a private land belonging to the Sultan of Johor from 1862, some portions of it had been acquired by the Government of Singapore in 1990 and in 2009 respectively.
Alexandra North
Neighborhood
Alexandra North is a subzone within the planning area of Bukit Merah, Singapore, as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Its boundary is made up of the Alexandra Canal and Prince Charles Square in the north; Tanglin Road in the west; Alexandra Road in the south; and Delta Road in the east.
Orchard
Photo: soeperbaby, CC BY 2.0.
Orchard Road is Singaporean consumerism at its most manic, a two-kilometre stretch of interconnected shopping malls, hotels, and hotels with shopping malls catering to all budgets and tastes.
Tanglin
- Categories: town, planning area of Singapore, and locality
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
1.30838° or 1° 18′ 30″ northLongitude
103.8176° or 103° 49′ 3″ eastPopulation
21,800Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)Open location code
6PH58R59+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 1830761621OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1880214Wikidata ID
Q7683056
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Thai—“Tanglin” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Տանգլին”
- Asturian: “Tanglin”
- Chinese: “Tang-lêng”
- Chinese: “东陵 (新加坡)”
- Chinese: “东陵”
- Chinese: “东陵规划区”
- Chinese: “東陵 (新加坡)”
- Chinese: “東陵”
- Chinese: “東陵規劃區”
- Dutch: “Tanglin”
- Finnish: “Tanglin”
- French: “Tanglin”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tang-lêng (Sin-ka-pho)”
- Persian: “تانگلین”
- Slovenian: “Tanglin”
- Tamil: “தங்லின்”
- Thai: “แทงกลิน”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include CDL Green Gallery and Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Museum.
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