Raffles Place
Raffles Place is the centre of the Financial District of Singapore and is located south of the mouth of the Singapore River. It was first planned and developed in the 1820s as Commercial Square to serve as the hub of the commercial zone of Singapore in Raffles Town Plan.- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: center of the Financial District of Singapore
- Also known as: “Raffle Place” and “Raffles Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marina Bay and Raffles Place Park.
Marina Bay
Photo: Erwin Soo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marina Bay is Singapore's newest district, created on reclaimed land just east of Riverside. It includes the areas east of Shenton Way and Esplanade Dr.
Raffles Place Park
Park
Raffles Place is the centre of the Financial District of Singapore and is located south of the mouth of the Singapore River. It was first planned and developed in the 1820s as Commercial Square to serve as the hub of the commercial zone of Singapore in Raffles Town Plan.
Raffles Place
Metro station
Photo: Calvin Teo, CC BY 2.5.
Raffles Place MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the North–South Line and East–West Line in Singapore. Located in the Downtown Core, the station is underneath Raffles Place south of the Singapore River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clifford Pier and Boat Quay.
Clifford Pier
Neighborhood
Clifford Pier was a former pier located beside Collyer Quay at Marina Bay within the Downtown Core of the Central Area, Singapore. The pier, which opened in 1933, ceased operations in 2006.
Boat Quay
Neighborhood
Photo: MichaelJanich, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boat Quay is a historical quay in Singapore which is situated upstream from the mouth of the Singapore River on its southern bank. It spans from the shophouses near UOB Plaza, stretching along one bank of the Singapore River, up until Elgin Bridge.
Shenton Way
Locality
Shenton Way is a major trunk road serving Singapore's Central Area and is most commonly known for the commercial skyscrapers flanking both sides of the road.
Raffles Place
- Categories: town, administrative territorial entity of Singapore, and locality
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.28372° or 1° 17′ 1″ northLongitude
103.85101° or 103° 51′ 4″ eastOpen location code
6PH57VM2+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2511052265OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q3079780
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Raffles Place” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Raffles Place”
- Central Bikol: “Raffles Place”
- Chinese: “莱佛士园”
- Chinese: “莱佛士坊”
- Chinese: “萊佛士坊”
- Dutch: “Raffles Place”
- French: “Raffles Place”
- German: “Raffles Place”
- Hebrew: “כיכר ראפלס”
- Indonesian: “Raffles Place”
- Japanese: “ラッフルズ・プレイス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Raffles Place”
- Norwegian: “Raffles Place”
- Russian: “Раффлз-плейс”
- Slovenian: “Raffles Place”
- Spanish: “Raffles Place”
- Thai: “ราฟเฟิลส์เพลส”
- Ukrainian: “Раффлс-плейс”
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