Planning Areas of Singapore increasingly adopted these boundaries for their administrative purposes. For example, the Statistics Department of Singapore published its 2000 census data based on planning area boundaries for the first time, compared to using census divisions based on electoral boundaries for previous exercises. The Singapore Police Force's (SPF) neighbourhood police centres have jurisdiction boundaries based on planning area boundaries when they were officially gazetted in 1999, as opposed to electoral divisions under the previous neighbourhood Police Post system. Planning Areas are further subdivided into subzones for statistical purposes. <nowiki>*</nowiki> = Place names attested to be of Malay origin and referred to similarly
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