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 .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Glass House Mountains.

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The are a popular tourist site in the Sunshine Coast of . The mountains were named by Captain Cook, who in 1770 thought they looked like glass houses as he sailed along the eastern coast of Australia.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sunshine Plaza and Cotton Tree Caravan Park.

Shopping center
is a large regional shopping centre located in , Queensland, Australia and is the largest shopping centre on the Sunshine Coast.

Motorhome stopover
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is a heritage-listed caravan park at Cotton Tree Parade, , , , Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 April 2009.

School
is a co-educational Christian private school in , a suburb of the in , Australia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maroochydore and Buderim.

Town
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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 .

Suburb
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is a town in the , , Australia. It sits on a 180-metre mountain which overlooks the southern Sunshine Coast communities.

Suburb
is a coastal suburb of in the , , Australia. In the 2021 census, had a population of 2,966 people.

Sunshine Coast

Latitude
-26.6544° or 26° 39′ 16″ south
Longitude
153.0934° or 153° 5′ 36″ east
Population
284,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
MCY
Open location code
5R5M83WV+68
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9489623578
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
10630449
Wiki­data ID
Q828357
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Satellite Map

Discover Sunshine Coast from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Sunshine Coast” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሌላይት ሐይ”
  • Arabic: “ساحل الشمس”
  • Arabic: “سن شاين كوست”
  • Arabic: “صن شاين كوست”
  • Armenian: “Սանշայն Քոսթ”
  • Armenian: “Քուենսլենդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Basque: “Sunshine Coast (Queensland)”
  • Basque: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Belarusian: “Саншайн-Кост”
  • Bengali: “সানশাইন কোস্ট”
  • Bulgarian: “Съншайн Коуст”
  • Catalan: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Central Kurdish: “سانشاین کۆست، کوینزلەند”
  • Chinese: “阳光海岸”
  • Chinese: “陽光海岸”
  • Danish: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Dutch: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Esperanto: “Sunbrila Bordo”
  • Faroese: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Finnish: “Sunshine Coast”
  • French: “Côte du Soleil”
  • French: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Georgian: “სანშაინ-კოუსტი”
  • German: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Hausa: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Hebrew: “סאנשיין קוסט (קווינסלנד)”
  • Hebrew: “סאנשיין קוסט, קווינסלנד, אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “סאנשיין קוסט, קווינסלנד”
  • Hebrew: “סאנשיין קוסט”
  • Hindi: “सनशाइन कोस्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Indonesian: “Sunshine Coast, Queensland”
  • Indonesian: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Japanese: “サンシャイン・コースト”
  • Japanese: “サンシャインコースト”
  • Javanese: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Kazakh: “Күннің жағасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Күндүн Чокусу”
  • Korean: “선샤인 코스트”
  • Korean: “선샤인코스트”
  • Latvian: “Sanšainkosta”
  • Lithuanian: “Sanšain Kostas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sanšain Koustas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Macedonian: “Саншајн Коуст”
  • Malay: “Sunshine Coast, Queensland”
  • Malay: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Maori: “Te Tai Tamanuiterā”
  • Mongolian: “Саншайн-Кост”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Norwegian: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Oromo: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਨਸ਼ਾਈਨ ਕੋਸਟ”
  • Persian: “ساحل آفتابی”
  • Persian: “سان شاین کوست”
  • Polish: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Portuguese: “Costa do Sunshine”
  • Portuguese: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Pushto: “سن شاین ساحل”
  • Russian: “Побережье Солнечного берега”
  • Russian: “Саншайн-Кост”
  • Sanskrit: “सनशाइन कोस्ट”
  • Serbian: “Sanšajn Koust”
  • Serbian: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Serbian: “Саншајн Коуст”
  • Silesian: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Sinhala: “සන්ෂයින් කෝස්ට්, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව”
  • Slovenian: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Somali: “Sunshine Coast”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سان‌شاین کوست، کوئینزلند”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سان‌شاین کوست”
  • Spanish: “Costa de Sunshine”
  • Spanish: “Sunshine Coast (Queensland)”
  • Spanish: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Swahili: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Swedish: “Sunshine Coast, Queensland”
  • Swedish: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Tajik: “Сохили Офтоб”
  • Tatar: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Thai: “ซันไชน์โคสต์”
  • Tok Pisin: “Sanlait Kos”
  • Turkish: “Sunshine Coast, Queensland”
  • Turkish: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Ukrainian: “Саншайн-Кост”
  • Urdu: “سن شائن کوسٹ”
  • Urdu: “سنشائن کوسٹ، کوئنزلینڈ”
  • Urdu: “سنشائن کوسٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Vietnamese: “Sunshine Coast, Queensland”
  • Vietnamese: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Volapük: “Sunshine Coast”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sunshine Coast, Queensland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sunshine Coast”
  • Wu Chinese: “阳光海岸（澳大利亚）”
  • Wu Chinese: “阳光海岸”
  • Yue Chinese: “陽光海岸”
  • “Sunshine Coast”

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