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Chinatown

Singapore's Chinatown is the traditional Chinese quarters of town, and while the entire city is largely Chinese these days, the area does retain some of its own charm.
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  • Type: Quarter
  • Description: neighborhood in Singapore, subzone of Outram
  • Also known as: “China Town Singapore”, “China Town, Singapore”, “Chinatown Singapore”, “Chinatown, Singapore”, and “Gu Chia Chui”
  • Wheelchair access: no
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Marina Bay and National Museum of Singapore.

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is 's newest district, created on reclaimed land just east of . It includes the areas east of Shenton Way and Esplanade Dr.

Museum
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The is a public dedicated to art, culture and history. Located within the country's at the area, it is the oldest museum in the country, with its history dating back to when it was first established in 1849, starting out as a section of a library at the Singapore Institution as the Raffles Library and Museum.

Park
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is a famous Singapore landmark and a major tourist attraction, located at , , near the Central Business District. The 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Riverside and Orchard.

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The Singapore River forms a central artery in 's densely packed Central Business District. The north bank of the river is where Raffles landed and founded his colony, and to this day many central government buildings can be found in the area.

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Road is 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.

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is, as the name promises, the centre for the large Indian community in . While a rather sanitised version of the , 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.

Chinatown

Latitude
1.28294° or 1° 16′ 59″ north
Longitude
103.84415° or 103° 50′ 39″ east
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
6PH57RMV+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2511049756
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
6942288
Wiki­data ID
Q1318670
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chinatown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحي الصيني، سنغافورة”
  • Arabic: “الحي الصيني”
  • Chinese: “Gû-chia-chúi”
  • Chinese: “牛車水”
  • Chinese: “牛车水”
  • Dutch: “Chinatown”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉina Kvartalo”
  • Finnish: “Chinatown”
  • French: “Chinatown de Singapour”
  • French: “Chinatown”
  • German: “Chinatown”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngiù-Chhâ-Súi”
  • Hebrew: “גו צ’יה צ’וי”
  • Hebrew: “סינגפור צ’יינה טאון”
  • Hebrew: “סינגפור/צ’יינה טאון”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יינה טאון, סינגפור”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יינהטאון”
  • Indonesian: “Chinatown”
  • Indonesian: “Kreta Ayer”
  • Italian: “Chinatown”
  • Japanese: “チャイナタウン (シンガポール)”
  • Japanese: “チャイナタウン”
  • Japanese: “牛車水”
  • Korean: “차이나타운 싱가포르”
  • Korean: “차이나타운”
  • Malay: “Chinatown”
  • Malay: “Kreta Ayer”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gû-chia-chúi”
  • Russian: “китайский квартал Сингапура”
  • Russian: “Район Чайна-таун”
  • Spanish: “Barrio chino”
  • Spanish: “Chinatown”
  • Tagalog: “Barrio Tsino, Singapur”
  • Tamil: “சைனாடவுன், சிங்கப்பூர்”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu phố người Hoa, Singapore”
  • Yue Chinese: “牛車水”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Chinatown”. Photo: William Cho, CC BY-SA 2.0.