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Lakemba

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ1801126 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lakemba is the name of two places, and the Sydney one was directly named after the Fijian one.

Lakemba, New South Wales is a suburb in the south-west of Sydney.

Lakemba Mosque is in the suburb and is one of the largest mosques in Australia

Lakemba railway station serves the suburb

The Electoral district of Lakemba is based around the suburb in Sydney

Lakeba, originally spelt Lakemba, is an island in the Lau Group of Islands in the Eastern Division of Fiji.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 82-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lakemba, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lakemba” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.