Central Area, Singapore

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The Central Area, informally called the City Area or Town Area or simply Town, is the main commercial and financial city centre of Singapore. Located in the south-eastern part of the Central Region, it broadly corresponds to the historic City of Singapore, while the term Singapore has since come to refer to the entire sovereign city-state. The Central Area consists of eleven constituent planning areas: the Downtown Core, Marina East, Marina South, Museum, Newton, Orchard, Outram, River Valley, Rochor, the Singapore River and Straits View, as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). The term Central Business District (CBD) has also been used to describe most of the Central Area as well, although its boundaries technically lie within the Downtown Core. Singapore's modern history began in this area, when British colonial official Stamford Raffles and representatives of the British East India Company landed along the banks of the Singapore River in 1819 to set up a free port of trade...

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