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Austria, [e] formally the Republic of Austria, [f] is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. [15] It is a federation of nine states , of which the capital Vienna is the most populous city and state.
VIENNA (Reuters) -Talks between Austria's two main centrist parties on forming a coalition government without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) collapsed on Saturday, prompting conservative ...
The Government of Austria (German: Bundesregierung der Republik Österreich) is the executive cabinet of the Republic of Austria. It consists of the chancellor , who is the head of government , the vice chancellor and the ministers .
The majority of the land area in the federal states of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Vienna, and Burgenland is situated in the Danube valley and thus consists almost completely of accessible and easily arable terrain. Austria's most densely populated federal state is Vienna, the heart of what is Austria's only metropolitan area. Lower Austria ...
Austria – landlocked sovereign country located in Central Europe. [1] It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.
The following is a list of the 20 largest cities and towns in Austria by population: Vienna, capital of Austria Graz Linz Salzburg Innsbruck Klagenfurt am Wörthersee Sankt Pölten Bregenz Eisenstadt Villach. The capitals of the federal states are shown in bold face.
Detailed map of Austria Satellite photo of the Alps. Austria may be divided into three unequal geographical areas. The largest part of Austria (62%) is occupied by the relatively young mountains of the Alps, but in the east, these give way to a part of the Pannonian plain, and north of the river Danube lies the Bohemian Forest, an older, but lower, granite mountain range.
Austria has an embassy in Ankara and a consulate-general in Istanbul. Turkey has an embassy in Vienna and consulates-general in Bregenz and Salzburg. Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe. Austria is an EU member and Turkey is an EU candidate. Austria opposes Turkey's accession negotiations to the EU, although negotiations ...