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Geylang

Geylang is a planning area and township located on the eastern fringe of the of , bordering and in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west.
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  • Type: Suburb with 110,000 residents
  • Description: district in Singapore
  • Also known as: “Geylang District”, “Geylang Serai”, and “Geylang Serai Village”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Stadium and Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Stadium
Photo: Exec8, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Singapore is a multi-purpose stadium in , Singapore. It serves as the country's . Opened in 2014, it was constructed on the site of the former , which stood from 1973 to 2010.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
The , known exonymously as the Indoor Stadium, is an indoor arena located in , Singapore. It is within walking distance of the , and collectively form a part of the wider Singapore Sports Hub.

Mosque
Photo: Syed Ahmad Al-Joofri, Public domain.
Masjid Taha, or is a in Geylang, . It is the only mosque for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the country. It is located at Onan Road, adjacent to Masjid Khalid, a mainstream mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Little India and Bugis.

Photo: innovision, CC BY 2.0.
is, as the name promises, the centre for the large Indian community in . While a rather sanitised version of the , retains its distinct identity without degenerating into a mere tourist attraction and is one of the most colourful and attractive places to visit in Singapore.

Photo: dionhinchcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
and Kampong Glam are districts of , just to the east of the central business district.

Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, Newton, Novena and Toa Payoh are neighbourhoods in central . Strung along the North-South Line just north of , these four rather dissimilar districts serve to absorb Singapore's urban sprawl and house its inhabitants.

Geylang

Latitude
1.3209° or 1° 19′ 15″ north
Longitude
103.8895° or 103° 53′ 22″ east
Population
110,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
6PH58VCQ+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1830761703
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1880668
Wiki­data ID
Q525295
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Satellite Map

Discover Geylang from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Geylang” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Geylang”
  • Chinese: “Gê-lâng”
  • Chinese: “芽笼”
  • Chinese: “芽籠”
  • Dutch: “Geylang”
  • Finnish: “Geylang”
  • Indonesian: “Geylang”
  • Irish: “Geylang”
  • Japanese: “ゲイラン”
  • Korean: “게일랑”
  • Korean: “겔랑”
  • Malay: “Geylang”
  • Malayalam: “Geylang-Road-By-Night”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gê-lâng”
  • Persian: “گیلانگ”
  • Thai: “เกลัง”
  • Ukrainian: “Гейлан”
  • Vietnamese: “Geylang”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Geylang”. Photo: Khairul Nizam, CC BY 2.0.