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Encyclopedia > Bukit Timah Hill
Names
English: Bukit Timah
Chinese: 武吉知马
(Pinyin: Wǔjízhīmǎ)
Malay: Bukit Timah
Tamil: fill in

Bukit Timah Hill, is a hill in Singapore which stands at at an altitude of 164 metres and is thus the highest point in the city-state of Singapore, and lies around the center of the island nation. Bumit Timah derived from Tin Hill in the Malay language. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin. ... The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who are native to the Malay peninsula, southern Thailand, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. ... Tamil is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. ... A hill in Hungary with a hillside vintage garden For the landform that extends less than 600 metres above the surrounding terrain and that is smaller than a mountain, see the mountain article. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city. ... The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who are native to the Malay peninsula, southern Thailand, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. ...


The surrounding area is also an urban planning area under the Urban Redevelopment Authority and is part of the Central Region, and lies 10 kilometres from the city's central business district, the Central Area. This surrounding area is often too referred to as Bukit Timah, and is also known as District 11. This area s a particularly prominent location with a high land value. The area of Bukit Timah has an extensive flora and forest compared to the parts of Singapore, and contains Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, which is partially responsible for its high land value. It includes educational institutions such as Raffles Girls' Primary School, and its nearby area houses many bungalows, traditionally expensive in land-scarce Singapore, as well as high rise condominiums. Many expatriates tend to stay in this region. This region was later extended and Upper Bukit Timah (District 21) was formed. The Keretapi Tanah Melayu from Malaysia has a passing loop station here along its rail network from Johor Bahru to Tanjong Pagar. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is the national planning authority of Singapore. ... The Central Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. ... Downtown Honolulu in Hawaii, United States, an example of an urban downtown district Central business district (CBD) and downtown are terms referring to the commercial heart of a city. ... The Central Area is the collective term for a group of financial and commercial districts in centre of Singapore which was previously otherwise known as the Central Business District and was renamed to accommodate the expanded function of the area. ... Land is sometimes used synonymously with country. ... Value is a term that expresses the concept of worth in general, and it is thought to be connected to reasons for certain practices, policies, or actions. ... Flora may refer to: Flora (plants), a collective term for plant life; as distinct from Fauna (animals) Flora (goddess), a goddess in Roman mythology 8 Flora, an asteroid A brand of margarine made by Unilever. ... A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, a wooded area set aside for hunting). ... The Bukit Timah Nature Reserve is a small 1. ... Raffles Girls Primary School (RGPS for short) is a government girls primary school in Singapore. ... A bungalow is any single story house. ... Insert non-formatted text hereInsert non-formatted text here--163. ... An expatriate (in abbreviated form expat) is someone temporarily or permanently in a country and culture other than that of their upbringing and/or legal residence. ... A train stopping at a KTMB railway station in Kuala Lipis, Pahang Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) or the Malayan Railway is the main railway system in Peninsular Malaysia. ... District Johor Bahru District Area  - Total (City) 185 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan Approx. ... Tanjong Pagar is a township located within the Central Business District in Singapore. ...

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Bukit Timah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (861 words)
Bukit Timah Hill, is a hill in Singapore which stands at at an altitude of 164 metres and is the highest point in the city-state of Singapore.
Bukit Timah, which literally means "tin bearing hill" in Malay, was already identified in the 1828 map by Frankin and Jackson as Bukit Tima.
Bukit Timah Road is known as tek kha kang a ki in Hokkien, which means "the side of the stream in the tek kha (or Selegie Road) district".
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Bukit timah nature reserve- last bastion of Singapore's primary rain forest.
The taxonomy and biology of the nepenthiphilous freshwater sesarmine crab, Geosesarma malayanum Ng and Lim, 1986 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsidae from Peninsular Malaysia).
The freshwater crabs of Bukit Timah hill, Singapore.
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