Kranji

Kranji is an area in Singapore, located about 22 kilometers (15 miles) north of the city centre and towns such as Raffles Place. It served as a military camp before the 1939 Japanese invasion, and now is the home of the Kranji War Cemetery and Kranji Memorial. There is also a reservoir in Kranji, known as Kranji Reservoir.

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The Singapore Turf Club, the only horse-racing racecourse in Singapore, is located in Kranji, next to the Kranji MRT Station.

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Singapore: The Republic of Singapore (Simplified Chinese: ??????; Pinyin: X?nji?p? G?ngh?gu?, Malay: Republik Singapura; Tamil: ??????????? ????????), is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, situated on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of the Indonesia...

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