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This is a list of places in Queensland by urban centre population. Urban Centres by population. Rank Urban Centre Population Region Notes 2021 census 2016 census
Queensland: 2,706,966 2,274,600 ... There are urban areas of greater than 10,000 people that the ABS does not currently classify as Significant Urban Areas.
Queensland was explored in subsequent decades, and the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement was established at Brisbane in 1824 by John Oxley. During the Australian frontier wars of the 19th century, colonists killed tens of thousands of Aboriginal people in Queensland while consolidating their control over the territory.
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]
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, with a population over 2.7 million. [1]
The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins (2002) O'Farrell, Patrick. The Irish in Australia: 1798 to the Present Day (3rd ed. Cork University Press, 2001) Wells, Andrew, and Theresa Martinez, eds. Australia's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook (ABC-CLIO, 2004)
The Gold Coast is the ancestral home of a number of Indigenous clans of the Yugambeh people, [15] including the Kombumerri, [16] Mununjali, [17] and Wangerriburra clans. Europeans arrived in 1823 when explorer John Oxley explored the Tweed River. [18] The hinterland's timber supply attracted people to the area in the mid-19th century. [19]
South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 4.0 million [1] people out of the state's population of 5.5 million.