Downtown Core
The Downtown Core is the historical and downtown centre of the city-state of Singapore and the main commercial area in Singapore excluding reclaimed lands with two integrated resorts such as the Marina Bay Sands, one of the most expensive buildings in the world, with a luxurious standalone casino at Bayfront Avenue.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marina Bay and Merlion 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.
Merlion Park
Park
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Merlion Park is a famous Singapore landmark and a major tourist attraction, located at One Fullerton, Singapore, near the Central Business District. The Merlion is a mythical creature with a lion's head and the body of a fish that is widely used as a mascot and national personification of Singapore.
Merlion
Work of art
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Merlion is the official mascot of Singapore. It is depicted as a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Being of prominent symbolic nature to Singapore and Singaporeans in general, it is widely used to represent both the city state and its people in sports teams, advertising, branding, tourism and as a national personification.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Raffles Place and Civic District.
Raffles Place
Quarter
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.
Civic District
Suburb
Photo: William Cho, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Civic District is a district located near the Singapore River in the Central Area of Singapore. It contains historical buildings and museums such as The Arts House, National Gallery Singapore, National Museum of Singapore, and Asian Civilisations Museum.
Downtown Core
- Type: Suburb
- Description: urban planning area of Singapore
- Categories: downtown, planning area of Singapore, and locality
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.28624° or 1° 17′ 11″ northLongitude
103.85378° or 103° 51′ 14″ eastOpen location code
6PH57VP3+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 8804767090OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q3810086
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Downtown Core” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Downtown Core”
- Central Kurdish: “سینگاپوور”
- Chinese: “Chhī-tiong-sim”
- Chinese: “中心城區”
- Chinese: “市中心”
- Chinese: “新加坡中心區”
- Chinese: “新加坡中心城區”
- Chinese: “新加坡市中心”
- French: “Downtown Core”
- German: “Downtown Core (Planungsgebiet)”
- Hebrew: “דאונטאון קור”
- Japanese: “ダウンタウン・コア”
- Malay: “Downtown Core”
- Malay: “Teras Pusat Bandar, Singapura”
- Mazanderani: “سنگاپور”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhī-tiong-sim (Sin-ka-pho)”
- Minangkabau: “Downtown Core”
- Nauru: “Downtown Core”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Downtown Core”
- Norwegian: “Downtown Core”
- Persian: “شهر سنگاپور”
- Persian: “مرکز شهر سنگاپور”
- Slovenian: “Downtown Core”
- Spanish: “Downtown Core”
- Tamil: “நகர நடுவம்”
- Thai: “ดาวน์ทาวน์คอร์”
- Urdu: “مرکزی سنگاپور”
- Vietnamese: “Downtown Core”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bayfront and Nankin Row.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Fullerton Hotel Singapore and The Fullerton Waterboat House.
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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 “Downtown Core”. Photo: Khairul Nizam, CC BY 2.0.