batok

Bukit Batok /bukt btk/ (Chinese: , Tamil:

), often
abbreviated as Bt Batok, is a planning area and matured residential town
straddling along the eastern boundary of the West Region of Singapore. Bukit
Batok statistically ranks in as the 25th largest, the 12th most populous and the
11th most densely populated planning area in the Republic.[3][5] It is bordered
by six other planning areas - Choa Chu Kang to the north and northwest, Bukit
Panjang to the northeast and east, Clementi to the south, Bukit Timah to the
southeast, Jurong East to the southwest and Tengah to the west.[6][7]
Bukit Batok largely sits on Gombak norite, a geological formation that is found
in high concentrations within the planning area itself, as well as in the
western parts of neighbouring Bukit Panjang.[8][9][10] It was this presence of
the igneous rock that made Bukit Batok a pivotal location for the quarrying
industry in Singapore around the turn of the mid-20th century.[11]

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