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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.
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 ...
A topographic map of Austria showing cities with over 100,000 inhabitants A glacial region in winter, close to the valley Ötztal in Tyrolia. The highest peak is the Wildspitze (3,768 metres (12,362 ft)), the second highest mountain in Austria. Austria is a largely mountainous country because of its location in the Alps. [149]
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.
Major cities are Amstetten, Krems an der Donau, Wiener Neustadt and Sankt Pölten, which has been the capital of Lower Austria since 1986, replacing Vienna, which became a separate state in 1921. With a land area of 19,186 km 2 (7,408 sq mi) and a population of 1.7 million people, Lower Austria is the largest and second-most-populous state in ...
An enlargeable satellite map of Austria Grossglockner is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria Lake Neusiedl, at 115 m (377 ft), the lowest point in Austria. Geography of Austria. Austria is a: Country. Developed country; Landlocked country; Sovereign state. Member State of the European Union; Location: