Austria
- Year of EU entry: 1995
- Political system: Federal republic
- Capital city: Vienna
- Total area: 83 858 km²
- Population: 8.3 million
- Currency: euro
- Language: German
- Time: GMT +1
- Electricity: 220 V
Austria, a predominantly mountainous country, is located in Central Europe. It borders Slovakia and Hungary to the East, Germany and the Czech Republic to the North, Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the West, and Slovenia and Italy to the South. The Alps dominate the western and southern parts of Austria.
Vienna (Wien) is the capital of Austria and lies on the Danube River.
Austria consists of these federal states:
- Vienna (Wien)
- Upper Austria (Oberösterreich)
- Lower Austria (Niederösterreich)
- Carinthia (Kärnten)
- Tyrol (Tirol)
- Salzburg (Salzburg)
- Vorarlberg (Vorarlberg)
- Styria (Steiermark)
- Burgenland (Burgenland)
POPULATION
Austria‘s population is over 8 million, and approximately 20% of the total population live in Vienna. Austria has a very diverse ethnic mix to include such ethnic groups as Croats, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovenes, Slovaks and Roma/Sinti. Approximately 5 % of Austrians are Protestant, 74 % are Roman Catholic, and of other faiths.
TRAVEL
Austrian Airlines (airline code OS; Hub: Vienna airport) is the major airline operating within Europe and internationally. Smaller carriers are Austrian Arrows (formerly Tyrolean Airways) and Lauda Air. The main airport is Vienna (VIE).
The main airports in Austria:
- Airport Letisko Bratislava (BTS; www.airportbratislava.sk)
- Graz (GRZ; www.flughafen-graz.at, in German)
- Innsbruck (INN; www.innsbruck-airport.com, in German)
- Klagenfurt (KLU; ¬www.klagenfurt-airport.com)
- Linz (LNZ; www.flughafen-linz.at)
- Salzburg (SZG; www.salzburg-airport.com, in German)
- Vienna (VIE; www.viennaairport.com)
Major tourist attractions:
- Eisriesenwelt Caves (ice caves)
- Hohe Tauern National Park
- Schonbrunn Palace (Vienna)
- Esterhazy Palace
- Memorial sites for Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, Freud, etc. Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, art of Gustav Klimt, philosophy and ideas of Siegmund Freud and Ludwig Wittgenstein greatly enrich the cultural heritage of Austria.
- Other activities: snowboarding, skiing, musical concerts, art museums and galleries, water sports, cycling, boat cruises on the river Danube, treks and hikes, mountaineering, rock climbing, health spas, swimming, nature parks, wine tours.
Airlines servicing Vienna:
- Adria Airways
- Aer Lingus
- Aeroflot
- Air Alps
- Air Baltic
- Air Berlin
- Air Canada
- Air China
- Air Dolomiti
- Air France
- Air India
- Air Madagascar
- Air Malta
- Air Moldova
- Air Namibia
- Air One
- Air Seychelles
- Air Transat Destination Canada
- Airzena Georgian Airlines
- Alitalia
- All Nippon Airways
- American Airlines
- Austrian Airlines AG
- Austrian Arrows
- Avianca
- Bangkok Airways
- Belavia
- Blu Express
- British Airways
- British Midland
- Brussels Airlines
- Bulgaria Air
- Cabo Verde Airlines
- Canadian Airlines
- China Airlines
- China Airlines
- Croatia Airlines
- Crossair
- CSA Czech Airlines
- Cyprus Airways
- Delta Air Lines
- Dniproavia
- Easyjet
- Egypt Air
- EL AL
- Emirate Airlines
- Ethiopian Airlines
- EVA Airways
- Finnair
- Garuda Indonesia
- Germanwings
- Iberia
- InterSky
- Iran Air
- JAL
- JAT
- JET Air
- JOB Air
- KLM
- Korean Air Cargo
- Lauda Air
- Libyan Arab Airlines
- LOT POLISH AIRLINES
- Lufthansa
- LUXair
- Macedonian Airlines
- Malaysian Airlines
- Malev
- Mexicana
- niki
- Northwest Airlines
- Northwest Airlines / KLM SVC
- Olympic Airlines
- Pakistan Intl. Airlines
- Pegasus Airlines
- Philippine Airlines
- Qantas Airways
- Qatar Airways
- Rossiya – Russian Airlines
- Royal Jordanian
- Samara Airlines
- SAS Scandinavian Airlines
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
- SkyEurope Airlines, a. s.
- South African Airways
- Spanair
- Swiss International Air Lines
- Syrianair
- TAP Air Portugal
- Tarom
- Thai Airways
- Transaero Airlines
- Transbrasil Airlines
- Tunis Air
- Turkish Airlines
- TWA Trans World Airlines
- Tyrolean Airways
- Ukraine International Airlines
- US Airways
- VASP Brazilian Airlines
- West Indies Airways
- YEMENIA Yemen Airways
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