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.Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: William Cho, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Sengkang, Copyrighted free use.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Riverside
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Singapore River forms a central artery in Singapore's densely packed Central Business District.
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.
Asian Civilisations Museum
The Asian Civilisations Museum is an institution which forms a part of the four museums in Singapore, the other three being the Peranakan Museum, the National Museum of Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.Localities 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.
Little India
Photo: innovision, CC BY 2.0.
Little India is, as the name promises, the centre for the large Indian community in Singapore.
Bugis
Photo: dionhinchcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bugis and Kampong Glam are districts of Singapore, just to the east of the central business district.
Chinatown
- Type: Quarter
- Description: neighbourhood in Singapore, subzone of Outram
- Categories: Chinatown, neighbourhood, administrative territorial entity of Singapore, tourism, tourist attraction and locality
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.28294° or 1° 16' 59" northLongitude
103.84415° or 103° 50' 39" eastElevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open Location Code
6PH57RMV+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 2511049756OpenStreetMap Feature
place=quarterOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
6942288Wikidata ID
Q1318670Chinatown Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Arabic: الحي الصيني، سنغافورة
- Chinese: Gû-chia-chúi
- Chinese: 牛車水
- Chinese: 牛车水
- Dutch: Chinatown
- English: China Town, Singapore
- English: China Town Singapore
- English: Chinatown, Singapore
- English: Chinatown Singapore
- Esperanto: Ĉina Kvartalo
- Finnish: Chinatown
- French: Chinatown
- French: Chinatown de Singapour
- German: Chinatown
- Hakka Chinese: Ngiù-Chhâ-Súi
- Hausa: Ngiù-Chhâ-Súi
- Hebrew: סינגפור/צ'יינה טאון
- Hebrew: צ'יינהטאון
- Indonesian: Chinatown
- 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
- Korean: 차이나타운 싱가포르
- Malay: Chinatown
- Malay: Kreta Ayer
- Min Nan Chinese: Gû-chia-chúi
- Russian: Район Чайна-таун
- Russian: китайский квартал Сингапура
- Spanish: Barrio chino
- Spanish: Chinatown
- Tagalog: Barrio Tsino, Singapur
- Tamil: சைனாடவுன், சிங்கப்பூர்
- Vietnamese: Khu phố người Hoa, Singapore
- Yue Chinese: 牛車水
Other Places Named Chinatown
In the Area
- Nankin RowNeighbourhood
- OutramSuburb
- Tanjong PagarSuburb
- Shenton WaySuburb
- Pulau SaigonLocality
- Raffles PlaceQuarter
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Chinatown. Photo: William Cho, CC BY-SA 2.0.