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R336 (South Africa)

road in South Africa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7274577 ↗
Source-derived summary

The R336 is a Regional Route in South Africa. It runs east/west. The western origin is the R75. From there, it passes through Kirkwood and ends at Addo at the R335.

Editorial summary

“R336 (South Africa)” enters the record as road in South Africa. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what R336, South and Africa can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 31-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 R336, South and Africa.
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Why this record matters

“R336 (South Africa)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, R336, South and Africa provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7274577. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “R336 (South Africa)” 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.