Sentosa and Harbourfront
Sentosa is an island just off the southern coast of Singapore. This district also includes Harbourfront and the Southern Islands.Photo: Terence Ong, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: island off the south coast of the main island of Singapore
- Also known as: “Poelau Belakangmati”, “Pulau Blakang Mati”, “Sentosa”, and “Sentosa Island”
- Historically known as: “Blakang Mati Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marina Bay and Universal Studios Singapore.
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.
Universal Studios Singapore
Theme park
Photo: Ivan Bandura, CC BY 2.0.
Universal Studios Singapore is a theme park located within the Resorts World Sentosa integrated resort at Sentosa in Singapore. It features 24 rides, shows, and attractions in seven themed zones.
Pulau Brani
Island
Pulau Brani is an island located off the southern coast of Singapore, near Keppel Harbour. The island is situated between the main island of Singapore and the resort island of Sentosa, and is linked to the mainland via Brani Terminal Avenue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chinatown and Riverside.
Chinatown
Photo: William Cho, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Riverside
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Singapore River forms a central artery in Singapore'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.
Orchard
Photo: soeperbaby, CC BY 2.0.
Orchard Road is Singaporean 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.
Sentosa and Harbourfront
- Categories: island, administrative territorial entity of Singapore, and locality
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.24969° or 1° 14′ 59″ northLongitude
103.82975° or 103° 49′ 47″ eastElevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
6PH56RXH+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1873935437OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sentosa and Harbourfront” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سينتوسا”
- Asturian: “Sentosa”
- Azerbaijani: “Sentosa”
- Bavarian: “Sentosa”
- Bengali: “সেন্টোসা”
- Bengali: “সেন্তোসা”
- Bulgarian: “Сентоса”
- Burmese: “ဆန်တိုဆာကျွန်း”
- Cebuano: “Sentosa”
- Chinese: “圣淘沙”
- Chinese: “圣淘沙岛”
- Chinese: “聖淘沙”
- Czech: “Sentosa”
- Dutch: “Sentosa (eiland)”
- Dutch: “Sentosa”
- Esperanto: “Sentosa”
- Estonian: “Sentosa”
- Finnish: “Sentosa”
- French: “Sentosa”
- Galician: “Sentosa”
- German: “Sentosa Island”
- German: “Sentosa”
- Hebrew: “סנטוסה”
- Hindi: “सेंटोसा”
- Hungarian: “Sentosa Island”
- Hungarian: “Sentosa-sziget”
- Hungarian: “Sentosa”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sentosa”
- Indonesian: “Sentosa”
- Italian: “Sentosa”
- Japanese: “セントーサ”
- Japanese: “セントーサ島”
- Kannada: “ಸೆಂಟೋಸಾ”
- Korean: “센토사 섬”
- Korean: “센토사섬”
- Latvian: “Sentosa”
- Malay: “Pulau Sentosa”
- Malay: “Sentosa”
- Minangkabau: “Pulau Sentosa”
- Mongolian: “Сентоза арал”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sentosa”
- Norwegian: “Sentosa”
- Persian: “سنتوزا”
- Polish: “Sentosa”
- Portuguese: “Praia Sentosa Siloso”
- Portuguese: “Sentosa”
- Russian: “Сентоса”
- Slovenian: “Sentosa Island”
- Slovenian: “Sentosa”
- Spanish: “Isla Sentosa”
- Spanish: “Sentosa”
- Tamil: “செந்தோசா”
- Turkish: “Sentosa”
- Ukrainian: “Сентоса”
- Vietnamese: “Sentosa”
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