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Jurong is the largest town in the western part of Singapore, consisting of 7 residential precincts ( Nanyang, Hong Kah, Yuhua, Taman Jurong, Boon Lay, Gek Poh, Pioneer ), 14 industrial districts ( Jurong Port, Jurong Pier, Jurong Hill, Lok Yang, Joo Koon, Gul, Benoi, Pioneer Sector, Toh Tuck, International Business Park, Kian Teck, Chin Bee, Penjuru, Jurong Island ), 1 military zone ( Pasir Laba ) and 1 Waterfront district ( Jurong Lake ).
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The Port of Singapore, run by the port operators PSA International ( formerly the Port of Singapore Authority ) and Jurong Port, is the world's busiest in terms of shipping tonnage handled 1. 04 billion gross tons were handled in the year 2004, crossing the one billion mark for the first time in Singapore's maritime history.
* Jurong Falls in Singapore is an artificial waterfall.
It resembles Woodlands, the largest town in the northern part of Singapore, which is smaller in size, has smaller industrial area and yet more densely populated with residents than Jurong.
The soil condition in Jurong is known as the ' Jurong Formation '.
Jurong is probably derived from the Malay word jerung, which means a " shark ".
Jurong today is a town with residential and industrial developments.
The industrial districts are managed by JTC and it is common to find foreign workers hanging out in Jurong.
Seven islets off the coast of Jurong were merged to create the 30 square kilometre Jurong Island, which is to be the base for oil, petrochemical and chemical industries.
Construction of Jurong Island began in the early 1990s and is scheduled to be completed in 2010.
Jurong is well connected to the rest of Singapore by road, with Kranji Expressway linking them to the northern part of Singapore, Pan Island Expressway linking them to the Eastern part of Singapore and the Ayer Rajah Expressway linking them to the south-eastern part of Singapore.
The town is well-connected to the Mass Rapid Transit system with Jurong East and Chinese Garden for the Jurong East area.
The town is well-served by public bus services originating from 2 interchanges and 1 bus depot, namely the Jurong East and Boon Lay bus interchanges and Soon Lee Bus Depot.
The largest suburban mall in Singapore, Jurong Point Shopping Centre is well-accessible by bus services from all the residential precincts of Jurong except Yuhua and Teban Gardens.
IMM is a mall located within walking distance and visible from Jurong East MRT Station, with a family-orientated food court at the highest storey of the mall, many furniture stores and other stores that meet the needs of the people, such as a Popular Bookstore and Daiso department store which sells decorative stuffs and other lifestyle products at a reasonably low price of $ 2.
Jurong and largest
Jurong Island forms a land area of about from an initial area of less than, and is the largest of Singapore's outlying islands.
Tampines ( tæmpəˈniːs ) ( or Tampines New Town ) is the largest residential area in the city-state of Singapore, it is the second largest commercial hub outside the city-state of Singapore after the Jurong Lake District and also will be a future logistics hub of Singapore.
YTL Cement Bhd is one of the largest, most efficient and profitable manufacturers of Cement and ready mixed concrete products in Malaysia with interest in Jurong Cement Limited in Singapore and a 100 % interest in Zhejiang Lin ' an Jin Yuan Cement Co Ltd in China.
It is part of the larger town of Jurong, having the second largest resident population in Singapore.
It manages the largest land area amongst the various land divisions in Singapore ( 38 % of the total land area ), covering the areas of Bukit Batok, Bukit Panjang, Choa Chu Kang, Jurong West, Kranji, Lim Chu Kang and Woodlands.
Jurong and town
Jurong Junior College is located within the town, in between Hong Kah and Boon Lay.
Ang Mo Kio New Town was the first town to introduce this road numbering system, and it has since been replicated in other towns such as Hougang New Town, Jurong West New Town and Woodlands New Town.
Clementi is a town in Singapore, located in the west between Jurong and Dover, and commonly refers to the Housing and Development Board ( HDB )' s housing estate of Clementi New Town.
* Jurong, a constituency and town of Singapore
* Jurong East, a residential neighbourhood within the eastern portion of the town of Jurong
* Jurong West, a residential neighbourhood within the western portion of the town of Jurong
The centre of Jurong West new town is also located at this neighbourhood.
Jurong and western
The Singapore Hokkien Association donated 500 acres ( 2 km² ) in the western Jurong area, which was then largely undeveloped rural land.
With Pioneer MRT Station serving the western portion of Jurong West New Town and Pioneer Sector, and Joo Koon MRT Station serving Joo Koon, Boon Lay MRT station now serves only the eastern portion of Jurong West New Town and 1 less industrial area and ceased to be the western terminal of the East West Line.
This will mean that eventually, the station only needs to serve the industrial areas of Jurong Pier, Jurong Hill and Pioneer Sector, just one-third of the original load the station had to serve when it was still the western terminal of the East West Line.
It is bounded by Bukit Batok Road, the Pan Island Expressway, along the western edge of Toh Tuck private estate, Bukit Batok East Avenue 6, Old Jurong Road, Bukit Timah Road, the north edge of Bukit Batok Nature Park, south edge of Hillview estate, east and north edge of Bukit Batok Town Park, and Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 back to Bukit Batok Road.
Jurong Lake ( Chinese: 裕廊湖 ; ; ) is a 70ha freshwater lake and reservoir located in the western region of Singapore formed with the damming of Sungei Jurong further downstream.
It is a landscaped park, built on the western slope of Jurong Hill.
Fuhua Secondary School ( abbreviation: FHSS ; Simplified Chinese: 辅华中学 ) is a secondary school located in Jurong West, in the western part of Singapore.
Joo Koon MRT Station ( EW29 ) is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit station along the East West Line in Jurong and also the western terminus for the line.
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As part of this effort to move up the value chain, the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Science ( an A * STAR research institute ) has been set up on Jurong Island.
* 10 March 1990: Jurong East-Choa Chu Kang ( initially operated as the Choa Chu Kang branch of the East West Line, became part of the North South Line on 10 February 1996 upon completion of the Woodlands Extension )
This is part of Jurong KTMB Railway Line which was constructed to facilitate the transportation of manufactured products from Jurong to Malaysia, and raw materials from Malaysia to the industrial estate at Jurong.
Pasir Ris is also part of the Jurong Town Corporation's plan to develop wafer fabrication facilities in Singapore.
A small part of the Jurong West Community is included in the boundaries of the Parco Regionale dei Castelli Romani, a regional environmental protection agency founded in 1984 by the Lazio Region in the area of Colli Albani.
Jurong East MRT Station ( NS1 / EW24 ) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit ( MRT ) station that is part of the North South Line ( Branch Line before 1996 ) and the East West Line in Singapore, and serves as an interchange station between the two lines.
Together with Boon Lay Bus Interchange and Jurong Point Shopping Mall, it is part of the Boon Lay Integrated Public Transport Hub.
File: JurongLakeMiddleUpper. JPG | View of the northern-to-middle part of Jurong Lake
File: JurongLakeMiddleLower. JPG | View of the middle-to-southern part of Jurong Lake with the Chinese Gardens in the background
File: JurongLakeUpper. JPG | View of the northernmost part of Jurong Lake, with Jurong Lake Park under construction
Although the Singapore Changi Airport Skytrain people mover, the Sentosa Express and the Jurong BirdPark Panorail is relatively similar to the LRT, they are not part of the system.
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