Austria

- Member of European Union

- Official language: German
- Neutrality
- Federal Republic
- Capital: Vienna
- Population: 8,4 mil. (more than ¼ in Vienna)

Location
- Neighbors: Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland
- Geographical features: High Tauern, Low Tauern, Tyrol Alps, Vienna Basin ( part of mountain range
Alps ) - only 20 % of area is lowland in the north (Pannonian Basin)
- The highest peak: Grossglockner - 3797 m
- Rivers: Danube, Inn, Drava
- Lakes: Lake Constance ( Bodensee ), Lake Neusiedl (UNESCO, water birds )
- Climate: transitive (mountain climate in Alps)
- The hottest part of Austria - alongside Danube in north (grape vine)
- Rivers - electricity production (70 % of electricity produced in hydro power plants )
Cities
- Innsbruck - the centre of winter sports and Winter Olympic Games, river Inn
- Mariazell - pilgrimage place
- Salzburg - birthplace of Mozart, river Salzach
- Vienna - a city of waltz, Stefansdom, Schonbrunn
- Graz - river Mur
- Linz - river Danube, the most
important port

Administrative Division
- Individual States of Austria:
Vienna ( the highest
population, the smallest
state ), Lower Austria ( the
largest area ), Burgenland
( alongside Hungarian borders
), Steiermark, Tyrol ( 2
separate parts ), Kärnten,
Salzburg, Burgenland,
Vorarlberg

Economy
- Construction of hydro power
plants
- Companies: Atomic (skis), Julius Meinl
• Agriculture: north alongside Danube (wheat, grape vine), mountain regions – livestock grazing large
number of ecological farms
• natural resources: magnesite
• industry : crude oil processing (OMV – from imported oil), metallurgy, wood industry, construction
(Strabag), manufactoring of jewellery (Swarowski)
• services: Billa
- importance of financial sector
- tourism
- The largest airport - Schwechat
 Slovenia

- The most developed, stable and truly

democratic state of Balkans
- Population: 2 mil.
- Capital: Ljubljana
- Member of EU and NATO
- High standard of living
- Company: Gorenge ( electronics )
- Mountaineous country with Alps in
the north
- High income from tourism