Rochor
Rochor is a planning area located within the Central Area of the Central Region of Singapore. Rochor shares boundaries with the following planning areas – Kallang to the north and east, Newton to the west, as well as Museum and the Downtown Core to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Masjid Abdul Gaffoor and Sim Lim Square.
Masjid Abdul Gaffoor
Mosque
Photo: Sengkang, Copyrighted free use.
The Abdul Gaffoor Mosque is a mosque in Little India, Singapore. It is located at Dunlop Street in the Rochor Planning Area. The mosque was constructed in 1907, and major restoration of the building was completed in 2003.
Sim Lim Square
Shopping center
Photo: Fooby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sim Lim Square, known in Chinese as 森林商業中心 and commonly referred to as SLS, is a large retail complex in Singapore that offers a wide variety of electronic goods and services including cameras, phones, video cameras, and computer parts and servicing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sungei Road and Little India.
Sungei Road
Neighborhood
Photo: Aldwinteo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sungei Road is a road in Singapore situated between Serangoon Road and Jalan Besar and runs along the Rochor Canal. The area around Sungei Road formerly housed affluent Europeans and Asians, and many ornately designed buildings were built there.
Little India
Photo: innovision, CC BY 2.0.
Little India is, as the name promises, the centre for the large Indian community in Singapore. While a rather sanitised version of the real thing, Little India 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.
Farrer Park
Neighborhood
Farrer Park is a subzone of the Rochor planning area in the Central Region of Singapore, as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority bounded by Serangoon Road, Rangoon Road, Race Course Road, Northumberland Road, Tekka Lane and Bukit Timah Road.
Rochor
- Type: Suburb
- Description: planning area in Central Region, Singapore
- Categories: residential area, planning area of Singapore, and locality
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
1.30414° or 1° 18′ 15″ northLongitude
103.85329° or 103° 51′ 12″ eastElevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
6PH58V33+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 8804777239OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Thai—“Rochor” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Gô͘-chô”
- Chinese: “梧槽（Rochor）”
- Chinese: “梧槽”
- German: “Rochor (Stadtviertel)”
- German: “Rochor”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gô͘-chô”
- Persian: “روچر”
- Thai: “โรเชอร์”
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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 “Rochor”. Photo: Khairul Nizam, CC BY 2.0.