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About Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast, or the Sunny Coast as it's colloquially known, is a peri-urban area and a holiday city comprising of several settlements in South East Queensland. It has a population of around about 400,000, making it Queensland's third largest settlement behind Brisbane and the Gold Coast, and the ninth in Australia.
If the Sunshine Coast had to be described in six words, it'd be "budget alternative to the Gold Coast".
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