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(abbreviated as Qld)
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“‘2nd-largest’ +’ 3rd-most populous’ state in the ”commonwealth’ of ‘australia'”
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(situated in the ‘north-east’ of the ‘country’, it is bordered by…)
‘torres strait’
(*north*)
(with ‘papua new guinea’ located less than ‘200 kilometers’ across from the ‘mainland’)
‘new south wales’
(*south*)
‘coral sea’ / ‘pacific ocean’
(*east*)
‘northern territory’
(*west*)
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‘south australia’
(*south-west*)
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(the state is the world’s 6th-largest ‘sub-national entity’, with an area of ‘1,852,642 square kilometers’ (or ‘715,309 square miles’))
(as of ’15 may 2018′, ‘queensland’ has a population of ‘5 million’, concentrated along the ‘coast’ and particularly in the state’s ‘south east’)
(the ‘capital’ (and ‘largest city’) in the state is ‘brisbane’ (australia’s 3rd-largest city))
(often referred to as the ‘sunshine state’, ‘queensland’ is home to 10 of australia’s 30 largest cities and is the nation’s ‘3rd-largest economy’)
(‘tourism’ in the state (fueled largely by its ‘warm tropical climate’, is a ‘major industry’)
(‘queensland’ was first inhabited by ‘aboriginal australians’ + ”torres strait’ islanders’)
(the first european to land in ‘queensland’ (and ‘australia’) was dutch navigator ‘willem janszoon’ in ‘1606’, who explored the ‘west coast’ of the ‘cape york peninsula’ near present-day ‘weipa’)
(in 1770, ‘lieutenant james cook’ claimed the ‘east coast’ of ‘australia’ for the ‘kingdom of ‘great britain”)
(the colony of ‘new south wales’ was founded in ‘1788’ by ‘governor arthur phillip’ at ‘sydney’)
(‘new south wales’ at that time included all of what is now ‘queensland’, ‘victoria’, and ‘tasmania’)
(‘queensland’ was explored in subsequent decades until the establishment of a ‘penal colony’ at ‘brisbane’ in ‘1824’ by ‘john oxley’)
(‘penal transportation’ ceased in ‘1839’ and ‘free settlement’ was allowed from ‘1842 on’)
(the state was named in hono(u)r of ‘queen victoria’, who on ‘6 june 1859’ signed ‘letters patent’ separating the colony from ‘new south wales’)
(‘queensland day’ is celebrated annually statewide on ‘june 6th’)
(‘queensland’ was 1 of the 6 colonies which became the ‘founding states’ of ‘australia’ with ‘federation’ on ‘1 january 1901’)
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