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Name Diameter clay less than 0.004 mm silt 0.004 mm to 0.0625 mm fine sand 0.0625 mm to 0.2 mm medium sand 0.2 mm to 0.6 mm coarse sand 0.6 mm to 1 mm very coarse sand 1 mm to 2 mm pebble (or gravel) 2 mm to 64 mm cobble 64 mm to 256 mm boulder more than 256 mm
Scale Knots 0 < 1 1 1 - 3 2 4 - 6 3 7 - 10 4 11 - 16 5 17 - 21 6 22 - 27 7 28 - 33 8 34 - 37 9 41 - 47 10 48 - 55 11 56 - 63 12 > 63
In 1993, 2.4 million people lived in HDB flats. They were distributed as follows:
Bedok [!] 225324 Tampines [!] 198721 Ang Mo Kio 198237 Yishun 183603 Bukit Merah 168145 Jurong West* 152992 Hougang* 149474 Toa Payoh 114419 Geylang 112861 Clementi 97789 Queenstown 96115 Bukit Batok [!] 95005 Kallang / Whampoa 94156 Jurong East [!] 81900 Serangoon* 69565 Bishan 67329 Woodlands* 67150 Central Area estates 60041 Bukit Panjang* 54284 Choa Chu Kang* [!] 46462 Pasir Ris* [!] 28092 Marine Parade [!] estates 26417 Other estates 23530
*These towns were not fully completed at the time of the URA [!] survey.
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