Noble Park North is a suburb in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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, Australia

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, 26 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district

Melbourne city centre

Melbourne City Centre is an area of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is not to be confused with the larger local government area of the City of Melbourne...

. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Dandenong

City of Greater Dandenong

The City of Greater Dandenong is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia located in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of 130 square kilometres and has a estimated population of 137,600 people....

. At the 2006 Census, Noble Park North had a population of 7510.

Noble Park North is bounded in the west by the edge of the Springvale Crematorium

Springvale Botanical Cemetery

The Springvale Botanical Cemetery is the largest crematorium and memorial park in Victoria, Australia. It is located in Springvale, in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Until 2006, it operated as The Necropolis Springvale....

, in the north by Police Road, in the east by Bakers Road, Halton Road and Eastlink, and in the southwest by the Princes Highway

Princes Highway

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Education

Carwatha College P-12 is a state co-educational school in the suburb.

Nazareth College

Nazareth College

Nazareth College is the name of more than one college:* Nazareth College , closed January 1992* Nazareth College , an institution of higher education in the United States...

 7-12 is a Catholic Secondary College in the suburb.

Sport

The suburb has an Australian Rules football team, Lyndale Football Club, competing in the Southern Football League

Southern Football League (Victoria)

The Southern Football League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors....

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See also

• City of Springvale
  City of Springvale
  The City of Springvale was a Local Government Area located about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994.-History:...
  
   - the former local government area of which part of Noble Park North was a part.
• City of Dandenong
  City of Dandenong
  The City of Dandenong was a Local Government Area located about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994.-History:...
  
  - the former local government area of which part of Noble Park North was a part.

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