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Kallang Today

15 December 2021

Explore Kallang in this story map

Aerial view of Kallang district with a river, buildings, bridge, and text "Kallang of Today - Start Your Journey."

Do you know Kallang is home to Singapore’s longest river – the Kallang River, as well as Kolam Ayer ABC Waterfront which is the first project under the Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters (ABC) Programme? How about the fact that it used to have a park that was built by volunteers and underwent a major river clean-up programme together with the Singapore River?

Find out more about these interesting facts in this story map on the waterbodies and green spaces of Kallang.

View the story map in full screen (opens in new tab) or on your mobile device by scanning the QR code below.

A QR code with the text "GO.gov.sg" in the center.
Notes

  1. This story map is not a comprehensive coverage of the parks and waterbodies found in Kallang.

  2. The base map used in this story map is the Singapore Land Authority's OneMap (opens in new tab).

  3. This story map used related Infopedia articles and other NLB digitised resources in NL Online (opens in new tab), BiblioAsia (opens in new tab), and Roots (opens in new tab) as references. It also consulted the following books: Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics (opens in new tab) (2013), What’s in the Name?: How the Streets and Villages in Singapore Got Their Names (opens in new tab) (2018), Ray Tyers’ Singapore: Then & Now (opens in new tab) (2018), Singapore: A Guide to Buildings, Streets, Places (opens in new tab) (1988), In Granite and Chunam: The National Monuments of Singapore (opens in new tab) (1996), Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000 (opens in new tab) (1999), Tidal Fortunes: A Story of Change: The Singapore River and Kallang Basin (opens in new tab) (1990), Our Home by the Kallang River: Past, Present and Future (opens in new tab) (2019), The Kallang Story: A Sports, Arts and Heritage Trail (opens in new tab) (2019), and A Kampong and Its Temple: Change and Tradition in Kampong Sar Kong and the Mun San Fook Tuck Chee (opens in new tab) (2016).

Image Credit

Photo by William Cho via Flickr (opens in new tab) (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)