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MacPherson

MacPherson is a neighbourhood located within the district of in the Central Region of . Its location roughly corresponds to the identically titled subzone in the Geylang Planning Area and is approximately sandwiched between the neighbourhoods of Aljunied and Paya Lebar.
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  • Type: Suburb with 28,400 residents
  • Description: subzone of Geylang planning area in Singapore
  • Also known as: “MacPherson Estate”, “MacPherson, Singapore”, and “Màibōshēn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mattar and Masjid Sallim Mattar.

Metro station
Photo: Seloloving, CC BY-SA 4.0.
MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in , . The station is located underneath Road near the junction of Merpati Road.

Mosque
is a mosque located in MacPherson, Singapore. It was built in 1935 on waqf land donated by Shaikh Sallim bin Taha Mattar, an Arab Singaporean merchant whom the mosque is also named after.

Metro station
Photo: Mailer diablo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the Downtown Line and Circle Line in planning area, Singapore, located underneath Paya Lebar Road at the junction with Circuit Link and Ubi Avenue 2.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Joo Seng and Geylang.

Suburb
is a subzone located in in the Central Region of . There are some condominiums and houses in the area. It is also where the Gurkha Contingent is based. There are many Gurkhas and their families living there in private flats.

Suburb
is a planning area and township located on the eastern fringe of the Central Region of , bordering and in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west.

Suburb
, also known as Ubi Estate, is a subzone located in the planning area of in the Central Region of . It lies within a somewhat rhombic piece of land bounded by Airport Road at the north, the Pan-Island Expressway at the south, Eunos Link at the east and Paya Lebar Road at the west.

MacPherson

Latitude
1.32728° or 1° 19′ 38″ north
Longitude
103.88536° or 103° 53′ 7″ east
Population
28,400
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
6PH58VGP+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8776085991
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1882033
Wiki­data ID
Q6722071
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Vietnamese—“MacPherson” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “麦波申”
  • Japanese: “マクファーソン”
  • Tamil: “மக்பெர்சொன்”
  • Vietnamese: “MacPherson, Singapore”

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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 “MacPherson”. Photo: Khairul Nizam, CC BY 2.0.