Brisbane central business district

Brisbane CBD Brisbane, Queensland
Brisbane CBD from Mt Coot-tha
Brisbane CBD
Coordinates	27°27′45″S 153°01′28″E / 27.46251°S 153.02432°E / -27.46251; 153.02432Coordinates: 27°27′45″S 153°01′28″E / 27.46251°S 153.02432°E / -27.46251; 153.02432
Population	7,888 (2011 census)
Postcode(s)	4000
LGA(s)	City of Brisbane (Central Ward)
County	Stanley
Parish	North Brisbane
State electorate(s)	Brisbane Central
Federal Division(s)	Brisbane
Suburbs around Brisbane CBD: Red Hill and Paddington Spring Hill Fortitude Valley Petrie Terrace Brisbane CBD New Farm South Brisbane Woolloongabba Kangaroo Point

The Brisbane central business district (CBD), officially gazetted as the suburb of Brisbane City and colloquially referred to as 'the city', is the heart of the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is located on a point on the northern bank of the Brisbane River. The triangular shaped area is bounded by the Brisbane River to the east, south and west. The point, known at its tip as Gardens Point, slopes upward to the north-west where the city is bounded by parkland and the inner city suburb of Spring Hill to the north. The CBD is bounded to the north-east by the suburb of Fortitude Valley. To the west the CBD is bounded by Petrie Terrace, which in 2010 was reinstated as a suburb (after being made a locality of Brisbane City in the 1970s).

The Brisbane central business district is an area of densely concentrated skyscrapers and other buildings, interspersed by several parks such as Roma Street Parklands, City Botanic Gardens and Wickham Park. It occupies an area of 1.367 km². The City is laid out according to a grid pattern surveyed during the city's early colonial days, a feature typical of most Australian street patterns. As a general rule, the streets aligned northwest-south east are named after male members of the House of Hanover, while the northeast-south west aligned streets are named after female members.Queen Street was the central roadway, that was turned into a pedestrian mall. It forms the pivotal axis for the grid of roads within the district.

The Brisbane central business district was built on a spur of the Taylor Range with the highest spot in the suburb being Wickham Terrace.North Quay is an area in the CBD that was a landing point during the first European exploration of the Brisbane River.