Queensland is the second largest mainland state in Australia. It contains 470 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 6,938,764 hectares (4.02% of the state’s area). 216 of these are National parks, which is the highest number of any Australian state or territory, totalling 6,587,093 hectares (3.81% of the state’s area). Seven others are Scientific National Parks, totalling 52,181 hectares (0.03% of the state’s area).
... and 2.0 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 8.24% water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 4,950 people, 1,924 households, and 1,252 ...