Queensland
 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.
Queensland is also Australia's most decentralised state: The capital and largest city is Brisbane, but others regional centres include the Gold Coast (the state's second largest city and a major tourism destination), Rockhampton, Townsville, Mackay, Cairns, Toowoomba, and Mount Isa. Queensland is often nicknamed the Sunshine State, since a sizable portion of the state is in the tropics.
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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