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English:  Bedok
Chinese: 勿洛
(Pinyin Wùluò)
Malay: Bedok
Tamil: பிடோ		 District: 16
Region: East
Postal Code: 46xxxx - 46xxxx
Political boundary: East Coast GRC 		Total area: 9.4 km²
Residential area: 3.94 km²
Dwelling units: 80,000
Population: 200,000
History
Bedok seems to be a very old place name. In the 1604 Manuel Gomes de Erédia's map of Singapore, there is a reference to the Bedok River called sune bodo (Sungei Bedok).

Bedok is one of the early native place names in existence around the time of Sir Stamford Raffles. In the first comprehensive map of Singapore Island completed by Frankin and Jackson and reproduced in John Crawfurd's 1828 book, the place name appears on the south east coast of the island as a river, Badok S. (Sungei Bedok), around the "small red cliff", a part of present Tanah Merah.

The Malay word bedoh refers to a type of slit drum made from a large hollowed log for calling people to a mosque for prayers or to sound the alarm in the days before loudspeakers. There was a prominent mosque in the 1950s at Jalan Bilal that still used the drum about five times a day. The "h" in the word bedoh is pronounced as a "k".

A less popular version refers to an equally uncommon Malay term of biduk, a small fishing boat like the sampan, or more likely, a dugout canoe, as the east coast was dotted with many fishing villages.

Present
Today, Bedok is a vast area which grew mostly through public and private housing, and industrial development. Within it, new towns have sprung up with extensive public housing including Bedok North and Bedok South with its own self-contained Town Centre (Bus Interchange, Swimming Complex, Tennis Centre, Stadium etc.; Kaki Bukit, Bedok Reservoir (with a Reservoir) and Kembangan. The private housing is spread through Frankel Estate, Siglap and Bayshore. The old Bedok Road stretches from Bedok junction to Upper Changi Road. The New Upper Changi Road now cuts through Bedok Road and has overhead MRT train tracks with 3 train station stops in the Bedok area, including Kembangan, Bedok and Tanah Merah Stations. The entire Bedok area with 8 sub-zones, cover a total area of approximately 2,157 ha.
 
 
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