SG · Curated travel guide
Singapore Botanic Gardens, Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Singapore and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Tropical garden
A tropical garden on the edge of Singapore's Orchard Road shopping district. Of the three gardens UNESCO has listed as World Heritage Sites, it is the only tropical one.
Photo: Calvin teo, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Integrated resort in Singapore
An integrated resort facing Marina Bay, and a Singapore landmark. When it opened in 2010, at S$8 billion (US$6.88 billion), it was reckoned the world's most expensive standalone casino property.
Photo: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0
Nature park in Singapore
Often shortened to GBTB, an urban park of 105 hectares in Singapore's Central Region, next to the Marina Reservoir. It has three gardens along the water: in Marina South, the Bay South Garden; in Marina East, the Bay East Garden, home to the Founders' Memorial; and spanning Kallang and the Downtown Core, the Bay Central Garden.
Photo: Shiny Things ., CC BY 2.0
Observation wheel in Singapore
An observation wheel in Singapore's Downtown Core, officially opened on 15 April 2008, with 28 air-conditioned capsules holding 28 passengers each, and a three-story terminal building.
Photo: Dikaiosp, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tallest hill in Singapore
Singapore's highest natural peak, 164 metres above sea level, in Bukit Panjang rather than the district that shares its name.
Photo: Leonard Reback, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hotel in Singapore
A historic luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road, Singapore, founded in 1887 by the Sarkies Brothers, Armenian hoteliers.
Photo: Velela ., Public domain
Zoo situated in Mandai, Singapore
Formerly the Singapore Zoological Gardens or Mandai Zoo, a zoo of 28 hectares by Upper Seletar Reservoir, in Singapore's heavily forested central catchment area. Mandai Wildlife Group runs it, along with its neighbours Night Safari, River Wonders, Bird Paradise and Rainforest Wild.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Terence assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5
Planning Area in Central Region, Central Area, Singapore
Often just called Orchard, a major road 2.5 km (1.6 mi)-long in Singapore's Central Area, and a famous tourist draw: an upscale shopping street lined with department stores, malls, restaurants and coffeehouses.
Photo: Niall Sohan ( talk ), Public domain
Office skyscraper in Singapore
A skyscraper in Singapore's Downtown Core, made up of two towers and a podium.
Photo: SpLoT, CC BY 2.5
Pedestrian bridge in Singapore
Officially The Helix, and once the Double Helix Bridge, a footbridge in Singapore's Marina Bay area linking Marina South with Marina Centre. It officially opened on 24 April 2010, but only half of it, because Marina Bay Sands was still being built.
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Officially the Republic of Singapore, a Southeast Asian island country. Besides its main island it has over 60 satellite islands and islets and a single outlying islet. It lies about one degree of latitude above the equator, off the Malay Peninsula's southern end, with the Strait of Malacca to its west, the Singapore Strait and Indonesia's Riau Islands to its south, the South China Sea to its east, and the Straits of Johor and Malaysia's State of Johor to its north.
Officially The Republic of Singapore. Known locally as Singapore, Singapura, 新加坡, சிங்கப்பூர்.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Singapore Botanic Gardens, Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay and Singapore Flyer and others. Singapore Botanic Gardens is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Singapore that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Singapore Botanic Gardens. That is not the full count for Singapore, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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