Jurong

A view of the Jurong Industrial Estate

Jurong (裕廊) is a town in the western side of Singapore. It used to be a swamp until the 1960s, when Goh Keng Swee, a minister, together with the United Nations, cleared the swamps, making Jurong an industrial estate (a place where industries are built to make goods). Jurong is divided in Jurong East, where houses and shops are built and Jurong West, mainly an industrial estate. Jurong East is under the Jurong Group Representation Constituency or Jurong GRC, while Jurong West is under the West Coast Group Representation Constituency. Jurong is connected to Johor Bahru by the Second-Link at Tuas. Jurong has the Jurong Bird Park and Chinese Gardens.

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Jurong Media

Philip Jackson's Plan of the British Settlement of Singapore. The region that is now Jurong can be seen on the south-western end of the map of mainland Singapore (top).
A stretch of Sungei Ulu Pandan in Clementi, the western branch of Sungei Pandan
Pandan Reservoir at sunset
The lithograph of Sungei Jurong made during the Perry Expedition of 1853 to 1854
Jurong Port with Pulau Damar Laur in the background. The location of Tanjong Balai would have been relative to the southern portion of the present-day port.
A 1942 map of Singapore from the book, Australia in the War of 1939–1945, highlighting the Jurong-Kranji defence line in red along the stretch between Sungei Jurong and the Kranji River
Jurong Industrial Estate with Jurong West in the background
Signs pointing to Jurong Industrial Estate in 1964
Boon Lay, located in Jurong West, is one of the oldest housing estates that still currently exist in the area
Shophouses at Jurong East Town, near the Jurong East MRT Station.