22 Facts About Jurong

Jurong was largely industrialised in the early 1960s in a response to the general economic situation of post-war Singapore.

Today, the rapid growth and much development of Jurong has led it to become one of the most densely-populated industrial areas in the city-state.

Jurong could take its name from the word, "Penjuru", which roughly translates to, corner.

Jurong noted down several islands which have since ceased to exist.

Two rivers of Jurong were mentioned again in 1848, when a second survey conducted by John Turnbull Thomson, described the original shape and settlements of Sungei Jurong and Sungei Pandan.

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Swamps dominated the coastline of Jurong, yielding large amounts of wildlife such as mudskippers and horseshoe crabs.

In maps made by the British administration before Singapore's self-governance in 1959, the colonial era district of Jurong was rather small, occupying what is today the present-day town of Bukit Batok and Tengah.

Today, most of what is left of the original pristine Jurong is restricted to the areas around the Pandan Reservoir and Sungei Pandan.

Name "Jurong" is often used to collectively describe the region's five main planning areas.

When Jurong is split into these five contiguous parts, it forms Jurong East and West in the north and north-west, Boon Lay and Pioneer to the south and south-west and Tuas to the extreme west of the region.

Boundaries of modern-day Jurong were first demarcated in the 1960 proposal of the new town.

The planned town was to be located entirely south of Jurong Road, combining land that was once the colonial era districts of Peng Kang, Pandan and the southernmost portion of Choa Chu Kang.

Post-colonization, Jurong had a small population of inhabitants scattered along the banks of the area's two main rivers, Sungei Jurong and Sungei Pandan.

Between 1852 and 1853, the first few portions of Jurong Road were paved to connect villages around Jurong to the metropolitan areas of Singapore Town and the rest of the island.

Jurong Brickworks was eventually shut down in 2005 and the entire manufacturing plant was demolished in that same year as well.

Jurong envisioned a major industrial town in Singapore that would have modern industries mainly based in the manufacturing sector, such as shipyards, steelworks, chemical plants and other factories.

Seven islets off the southern coast of Jurong were merged to create the 30 square-kilometre Jurong Island, which is where most of the oil, chemical and petrochemical factories, manufacturing industries and plants in Singapore are located at.

The construction and development of Jurong Island began in the early part of the 1990s and was scheduled to be completed by 2010 .

On 12 October 1978, a Greek oil tanker, Spyros, exploded at Jurong Shipyard, killing more than 70 people in the immediate vicinity.

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.

Jurong used to be an independent political constituency in the 1959 general elections.

Teban Gardens, Pioneer, Yuhua and Taman Jurong were under Bukit Timah Constituency and the N9 region of Nanyang was under Jurong Constituency all that while.