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Maradana
Sign in to saveMaradana is a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Maradana is the site of Maradana Railway Station, one of the primary railway hubs in the country, serving intercity rail and commuter rail. Maradana also has many railway yards and running sheds. A technical college, many national schools, the Lotus Tower, and business institutions are also located in the area.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 3 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Maradana is referenced by 136 other articles, and connects out to Maradana Railway Station, Hultsdorf and Sri Lanka.
It is catalogued under topics including Districts of Colombo, Populated places in Western Province, Sri Lanka and Suburbs of Colombo.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Colombo
- Region
- Western Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Colombo District
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Maligawatta
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Encyclopedic overview
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Maradana is a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Maradana is the site of Maradana Railway Station, one of the primary railway hubs in the country, serving intercity rail and commuter rail. Maradana also has many railway yards and running sheds. A technical college, many national schools, the Lotus Tower, and business institutions are also located in the area.
A statue of Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, the founder of the Theosophical Society and the first well-known person of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism, is located in Maradana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maradana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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