Brisbane

:This article is about the city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. For other uses see Brisbane (disambiguation)

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Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. The City of Brisbane has approximately 957,010 inhabitants, within a greater metropolitan area of 1.8 million people, making it the third most populous metropolitan area in Australia.

Related Topics:
Capital city - Queensland - Australia - Metropolitan area

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The city's name is pronounced {{IPA|/?b??z.b?n/}}.

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For those people whose browers do not recognise the IPA symbols, Brisbane is pronouced as briz'bun, with the emphasis being on the second syllable. The name of the city should never be pronounced as Briz'bane, despite the spelling.

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