Tourism plays a major role in Brisbane's economy, being the third-most popular destination for international tourists after Sydney and Melbourne. Popular tourist and recreation areas in Brisbane include the South Bank Parklands, the City Botanic Gardens, Roma Street Parkland, New Farm Park, Brisbane Forest Park, the Howard Smith Wharves, the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, the Teneriffe woolstore district, Fortitude Valley, West End, City Hall, the Parliament of Queensland, St John's Cathedral, Mount Coot-tha, which houses a lookout, the Botanic Gardens and the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, and the Queensland Cultural Centre, which houses the Queensland Museum, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Queensland Art Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art and the State Library of Queensland.

Brisbane is in the southeast corner of Queensland. The city is centred along the Brisbane River, and its eastern suburbs line the shores of Moreton Bay, a bay of the Coral Sea in the Pacific Ocean. The greater Brisbane region is on the coastal plain east of the Great Dividing Range, with the Taylor and D'Aguilar ranges extending into the metropolitan area. Brisbane's metropolitan area sprawls along the Moreton Bay floodplain between the Gold and Sunshine coats, approximately from Caboolture in the north to Beenleigh in the south, and across to Ipswich in the south west.

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