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Queensland is a state of Australia, in the north-east of the country. It is the second largest state by area and the third largest state by population.
The capital and largest city is Brisbane. Other major regional centers include the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Rockhampton, Mackay, Cairns, Toowoomba, and Mount Isa. Queensland is often nicknamed the Sunshine State, since it enjoys warm weather and a sizable portion of the state is in the tropics.
On Friday, 9 December 2005 the population of Queensland officially reached 4 million. Queensland is the fastest growing state in Australia, with over fifteen hundred people moving to the state a week. Predictions have been made to show that Queensland will become Australia's 2nd most populous state as soon as the late 2020's.
Queensland was originally a British Crown Colony that was separated from New South Wales in 1859. What is now Brisbane was originally the Moreton Bay penal colony, intended as a place to hold convicts who re-offended while serving out their sentences in New South Wales.
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