What is the capital of the Australian state of Queensland?
Brisbane is the capital city of Queensland in Australia. It is named after the Brisbane River, which in turn is named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, the Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825.
Queensland is a state in eastern Australia. It is the second largest state by area and the third largest state by population. The area was first settled by Indigenous Australians around 40,000 years ago. Later, Queensland was made a British Crown Colony that was separated from New South Wales in 1859. The area that currently forms Brisbane was originally the Moreton Bay punishment colony, intended as a place for criminals with a repeated offence history. The state later encouraged free settlement, and today Queensland's economy is dominated by the agricultural, tourist and natural resource sectors.
Brisbane has a humid subtropical climate, making the summers hot and wet, and the winters warm and dry. The warmest recorded temperature in Brisbane was 43.2 °C (109.8 °F) on 26th January 1940 and the coldest was 2.3 °C (36.1 °F) on 2nd July 1896.
Brisbane hosted the 1982 Commonwealth Games, the 1988 World Exposition, and parts of the 1987 Rugby World Cup and 2001 Cricket World Cup. It is home to large sports stadiums, including the Brisbane Cricket Ground, Lang Park, Ballymore Stadium and the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre. The city is known for its many skyscrapers, at least 50 of which are more than 100 metres (330 ft) tall.
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