Bukit Timah
Bukit Timah, often abbreviated as Bt Timah, is a planning area and residential estate located in the westernmost part of the Central Region of Singapore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 77,900 residents
- Description: planning area and residential estate in Central Region, Singapore
- Also known as: “Bt Timah”, “Bukit Timah Estate”, and “Bukit Timah Village”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Singapore Botanic Gardens and Embassy of Switzerland.
Singapore Botanic Gardens
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Embassy of Switzerland
Government office
The Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore represents Switzerland's diplomatic mission in Singapore. It is located at 1 Swiss Club Link in Singapore. H.E.
Buona Vista
Metro station
Photo: Circleline4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buona Vista MRT station is a Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the East–West Line and Circle Line in Queenstown, Singapore. This station is close to one-north, a high technology business park for the biomedical science, infocomm technology and media industries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orchard and North and West.
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.
North and West
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The northern and western parts of Singapore are the city's hinterlands, consisting of jungle dotted with public housing blocks and a significant industrial area in Sungei Kadut and the reclaimed area of Tuas.
Balestier
Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Balestier, Newton, Novena and Toa Payoh are neighbourhoods in central Singapore. Strung along the North-South Line just north of Orchard Road, these four rather dissimilar districts serve to absorb Singapore's urban sprawl and house its inhabitants.
Bukit Timah
- Categories: planning area of Singapore, architectural structure, tourist attraction, and town
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Wu Chinese—“Bukit Timah” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Bukit Timah”
- Chinese: “Bú-kiat Ti-má”
- Chinese: “武吉知馬”
- Chinese: “武吉知马”
- Dutch: “Bukit Timah”
- Finnish: “Bukit Timah”
- French: “Bukit Timah”
- German: “Bukit Timah”
- Hungarian: “Bukit Temah”
- Indonesian: “Bukit Timah”
- Malay: “Bukit Timah”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bú-kiat Ti-má”
- Slovenian: “Bukit Timah”
- Spanish: “Bukit Timah”
- Wu Chinese: “武吉知马”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nanyang Girls’ High School and Bukit Timah railway station.
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