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415 sq. km, 1.539.848 inhabitants.

Vienna is also federal capital of Austria, and at the same time the separate federal earth. This city lays in the east of federation, on districts of the Bottom Austria, for which 60 km from borders of Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia.

That Vienna became one of the most considerable European cities, speaks, вчастности, its ideal geographical arrangement at a crossroads of water Danube ways from Baltic to the Mediterranean. Owing to clearing of countries of Eastern Europe the Danube mother country has turned on one of the major points on a card of Europe. According to "to the report on interosculation of 1996" the European commission, Vienna is the fourth behind well-being from from above 200 regions of EU.

2.601 sq. km, 331.472 inhabitants.

Forward Арльберґ is найзахіднішою and - except for Vienna - the least behind the area the federal earth of Austria. Inhabitants Forward Арльбергу talk алеманською language, - related to the Swiss and Swabian dialect of German language. This "plot of land" ("лендле") between Boden sea and Арльберґом has a little excellent among themselves landscape regions; thanks to beauty of the local nature there especially частят foreign tourists. Найприбутковішими, near to transport area and sphere of services, there is an industry and power. Except the textile industry, in Forward Арльберзі developed also залізообробка, ferrous metallurgy and the food-processing industry.

16.388 sq. km, 1.184.720 inhabitants.

Штирію (Literally "Штиріська mark") name still "Green mark" - branchy woods cover approximately half of its surface, and still a quarter occupy lawns, onions, mountain valleys and vineyards. Northern part of the earth, mountainous Top Штирію, thanking покладам iron ore and to the enterprises of the ore and steel industry located here name also "Iron mark".

7.154 sq. km, 482.365 inhabitants.

From прадавніх times here extract salt. From here the city and earth name (the old slavic name - Сольгород) also resembles. This federal earth covers a part of the Calcareous Alpes, western Зальцкаммерґут with its lake districts, east Кітцбюгельські the Alpes, northern High Тауерн and western Low Тауерн.

11.980 sq. km, 1.333.480 inhabitants.

The Earth "on Еннс і" is a landscape triad: on the north the Granitno-gneissic height, then separated by a valley of Danube foothills of the Alpes which in the south passes in Austrian part Зальцкаммерґуту and the High calcareous Alpes.

19.174 sq. km, 1.473.813 inhabitants.

Through the Bottom Austria, no less than through the next Top Austria, Danube proceeds. It is the greatest behind the area the Austrian federal earth. Since 1986 its capital is Sankt-Pelten (about 50.000 inhabitants). No less than in the Top Austria, here still with the old administrative lowland on "site" was protected - we will tell, Винова a site, the Forest plot.

9.533 sq. km, 547.798 inhabitants.

Каринтія - найпівденніша the federal earth of Austria. Mountain Top Каринтія in the west together from Нижньокаринтським pool in the east create surrounded зусібіч high mountains landscape unity. So-called "Austrian Рів ' єра" on lake Verterskomu, in immediate proximity to earth Kla_enfurta capital (about 89.000 inhabitants) and bathing on Оссіахському and lakes M_lshtetterskomu are attractive places of excursions for the Austrian and foreign visitors; except the fourth big lake, Вайсенського, in Каринт і ї is about two hundred average and small lakes. It is a lot of tourists who are interested in culture, unite the rest in Каринт і ї with visiting of actions "Каринтійського summer".

3.965 sq. km, 270.880 inhabitants.

Найпівденніша The federal earth of Austria borders on the Bottom Austria and Штир і є ю. It was allocated 1921 from speech-German-language suburbs of Hungary after for Sen-Zhermenskoju peace agreement (1919) has been carried to Austria.

The democratic Republic Austria is a federative state and consists of the independent earths: Бурґенланду, Каринт і ї, the Bottom Austria, the Top Austria, Зальцбурґу, Штир і ї, Тиролю, Forward Арльберґу and Vienna.

Along centenary historical development the Austrian federal earths have turned on is specific the designated ethnic, economic and cultural unities. It, among another, connected with sharp division of the Austrian territory into natural-landshaftno-natural areas. Considering a relief, vegetation and a climate, federal territory amazingly non-uniform. Various vital habits, dialect features, customs and national a population system create a wide spectrum of the Austrian originality.

78 % австрійців - римокатолики. 5 % the population - Protestants (mainly ауґзбурзького creed), practise 4,5 % other religions, 9 % do not belong to any faith, and 3,5 % have not submitted about themselves точніших data (on the basis of population census of 1991).