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Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. The city's name is pronounced "BRIZ-buhn" ( SAMPA: ["brIzb@n], IPA: [ˈbɹɪzbən]). The City of Brisbane has around 940,000 inhabitants, while the surrounding metropolitan area population is around 1.7 million.
1 Geography and climate
Brisbane is situated in the southeast corner of Queensland at latitude 27°28′S, longitude 153°02′E. The city straddles the Brisbane River, and its eastern suburbs line the shores of Moreton Bay. The greater Brisbane region lies on the coastal plain, east of the Great Dividing Range.
Brisbane has a subtropical climate with warm, mild winters and hot, moiste summers. Brisbane is subject to high humidityHumidity is the amount of moisture in the air. It can be expressed as absolute humidity which is the mass of water in a specified volume or mass of air, or more commonly as relative humidity which is the absolute humidity divided by that absolute humidity, mainly from November through to April.
Some of its climatic averages:
- Mean January maximum temperatureTemperature is the physical property of a system which underlies the common notions of "hot" and "cold"; the material with the higher temperature is said to be hotter. General description The formal properties of temperature are studied in thermodynamics. — 29.4°C (84.9°F)
- Mean January minimum temperature — 20.7°C (69.3°F)
- Mean July maximum temperature — 20.4°C (68.7°F)
- Mean July minimum temperature — 9.5°C (49.1°F)
- Mean annual rainfall — 1146.4mm (45.1 inches)
- Wettest month on average — January, 159.6mm (6.3 inches)
- Driest month on average — August, 45.9mm (1.8 inches)
Some of its historical extremes:
- Hottest maximum temperature — 43.2°C (109.8°F), 26 January 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F
- Coldest minimum temperature — 2.3°C (36.1°F), 12 July 1894Events January 8 A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage. January 9 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard ( Lexington, Massachusetts). February 15 04:51 GMT and 2 July 1896Events January 4 Utah is admitted as the 45th U. January 5 An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Rontgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. January 12 H. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 18 The X-ray machine is exhib
- Wettest month — 1026 mm (40.4 inches) of rainfall, February 1893
- Wettest day — 465 mm (18.3 inches), 21 January 1887
- Highest wind gust — 145 km/h (90 m/h)
2 Demographics
The estimated population of the City of Brisbane is 938,384 (as of June 2003). Together with surrounding Local Government Areas, Brisbane has an estimated metropolitan population of 1,733,200 as of 2003. Brisbane City Council is the most populous Local Government Area in Australia and is one of the largest cities in the world in terms of geographic area. Brisbane boasts Australia's highest rate of capital city population growth. The metropolitan population reportedly grew by 10.5% between 1998 and 2003.
