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Riverside

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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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: Planning Area in Singapore
  • Also known as: “Singapore River” and “Singapore Riverside”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Marina Bay and National Museum of Singapore.

Photo: Erwin Soo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is 's newest district, created on reclaimed land just east of Riverside. It includes the areas east of Shenton Way and Esplanade Dr.

Museum
Photo: Sengkang, Copyrighted free use.
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
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Orchard and Chinatown.

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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.

Photo: William Cho, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Singapore's 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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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.

Riverside

Latitude
1.28996° or 1° 17′ 24″ north
Longitude
103.84001° or 103° 50′ 24″ east
Open location code
6PH57RQR+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8804784041
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q109583024
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Riverside” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهر سنغافورة”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sinqapur”
  • Bengali: “সিঙ্গাপুর নদী”
  • Catalan: “riu Singapur”
  • Cebuano: “Singapore River”
  • Chinese: “新加坡河”
  • Dutch: “Singapore rivier”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سنجافوره”
  • Esperanto: “Singapurorivero”
  • Estonian: “Singapuri jõgi”
  • Finnish: “Singaporejoki”
  • French: “Riverside de Singapour”
  • French: “rivière Singapour”
  • French: “Sungai Singapura”
  • French: “Xīnjiāpō Hé”
  • French: “新加坡河”
  • German: “Riverside”
  • German: “Singapore River”
  • German: “Sungai Singapura”
  • Hebrew: “סינגפור/ריברסייד”
  • Hebrew: “ריברסייד”
  • Hindi: “सिंगापुर नदी”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Singapura”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Singapore”
  • Italian: “Riverside”
  • Italian: “Singapore Riverside”
  • Japanese: “シンガポール川”
  • Japanese: “リバーサイド”
  • Korean: “싱가포르강”
  • Malay: “Sungai Singapura”
  • Malayalam: “സിംഗപ്പൂർ നദി”
  • Marathi: “सिंगापूर नदी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sin-ka-pho Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “სინგაპური (წყარმალუ)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Singaporeelva”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਿੰਗਾਪੁਰ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “رود سنگاپور”
  • Romanian: “râul Singapore”
  • Russian: “Река Сингапур”
  • Slovenian: “Singapore River”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سینقاپور”
  • Spanish: “Rio Singapur”
  • Spanish: “Río Singapur”
  • Turkish: “Singapur Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Сінгапур”
  • Welsh: “Afon Singapore”
  • Western Panjabi: “سنگاپور دریا”
  • “Singapore Riverside”

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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 “Riverside”. Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0.