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While Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia places the Dyirbalŋan (alternatively, Tjirbal, Chirpalji, Dyirbaldyi, Djirbal, Dyirbalnga, Dyirbal, Chirpa, Choolngai (of Wakara tribe), Njirma (horde at Ravenshoe)), on around 2800 square kilometres of tropical rainforest country on the plateau between Herberton and the Tully Falls, extending south to the Herbert River's headwaters, the AIATSIs Map adds a coastal section east of Tully to the Djirbalngan territory, with the Djabugandit as their northern neighbours, the Yidinji to the mortheast, the Wargamaygan to the south and the Gugu-Badhun and Mbaram to the west.

Sources:
Dixon, R. M. W. (1972). The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. Cambridge University Press.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2011). Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker. Cambridge University Press, 2011
Tindale, Norman Barnett Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, pp. 167-`168
Wikipedia (Dyirbal people): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyirbal_people