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The Brisbane area at night taken by satellite. The geography of Brisbane is characterised by its coastal location in the south eastern corner of the Queensland state of Australia. It is located halfway up the Australian east coast with longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of 27.5° south and 153° east.
Brisbane (/ ˈ b r ɪ z b ən / ⓘ BRIZ-bən, [10] Turrbal/Yagara: Meanjin, Meaanjin, Maganjin or Magandjin) is the capital and largest city of the state of Queensland [11] and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population over 2.7 million. [1]
The Taylor Range or Herbert Taylor Range is a mountain range on the western edge of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [1] It was first named The Glenmorrison Range by John Oxley during his exploration of the area in January 1824. [2]
The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city. Ten of Australia's thirty largest cities are located in Queensland, the largest outside Brisbane being the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, Ipswich, and Toowoomba. 24.2% of the state's population were born overseas. The state has the ...
Brisbane is the largest city in both the South East Queensland region and the state of Queensland. The Gold Coast. South East Queensland is commonly considered to be a single region. It contains two statistical regions listed above, Brisbane and Moreton. The region has a population of 3,500,000 people, or 72% of the state's population. [1]
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The creek drains the suburbs of Tarragindi and Holland Park West then flows northwards through Greenslopes, Norman Park and East Brisbane before entering the Brisbane River at Humbug Reach. [4] The total catchment area is 29.8 square kilometres (11.5 sq mi). [2] Coorparoo Creek in Coorparoo is a sub-catchment of Norman Creek. Other sub ...
The Brisbane River (Turrbal: Maiwar) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane in 1823.