Austria

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Republik Österreich
Flag Coat of arms
Official flag Official Coat of Arms
National information
National motto:
National anthem:
(song)
"Land der Berge, Land am Strome"
About the People
Official languages: German
Population:
(# of people)
  • Total: 8.150.835 ab. (2000)
    (ranked #86°)
  • Density: 97 per km²
Geography / Places
country map
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Capital city: Vienna
Largest city: Vienna
Area
  • Total: 83.858 km²
    (ranked #112°)
  • Water: 1,3 km² (n/a%)
Politics / Government
Established: July 27, 1955
Leaders: President: Heinz Fischer
Economy / Money
Currency:
(Name of money)
Euro
International information
Time zone: UTC +1
Telephone dialing code: +43
Internet domain: .at

Austria (german: Österreich) is a country in Central Europe. Around Austria there are Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is officially called "Republic of Austria". Austria is a member-state of the EU from 1995. In German, Austria is called Österreich. Austria was the birth place of Adolf Hitler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Strauß, many other famous people like Sigmund Freud and Ludwig van Beethoven lived in Austria.

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Countries and territories of Europe
Albania - Andorra - Austria - Azerbaijan1 - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus2 - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Georgia1 - Greece - Hungary - Iceland - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Liechtenstein - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Moldova - Monaco - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Republic of Macedonia - Romania - Russia1 - San Marino - Serbia and Montenegro - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey1 - Ukraine - United Kingdom - Vatican City
Dependencies: Akrotiri and Dhekelia2 - Faroe Islands - Gibraltar - Guernsey - Jan Mayen - Jersey - Isle of Man - Svalbard
Unrecognised countries: Abkhazia | Nagorno-Karabakh2 | South Ossetia | Transnistria | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus2
1. Country partly in Asia. 2. Geographically in Asia, but often counted as part of Europe for cultural and historical reasons.


Members of the European Union (EU) Flag of the European Union
Austria - Belgium - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom


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Famous people from Austria : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Herrmann Maier Arnold Schwarzenegger Harald Cerny and Stefan Lexa, football players in German` s second leauge Luttenberger-Klug, a famous pop band Wolfgang Schüssel