Gave the world the piano-forte, the psychoanalyst's couch and the croissant, and its flag is one of the oldest still in use.
Austria
Republic of Austria ยท รsterreich
Europe
ยท Western Europe
- ISO codes
- AT ยท AUT
- Density
- 106 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Austro-Bavarian German
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +43
- Internet domain
- .at
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 47.5190ยฐ N, 14.1310ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Austrian
- UN region
- Western Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $445.08B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 8
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By the numbers
How Austria stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Austria
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 8,877,067 people, the 98th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.12 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 83,871 kmยฒ, making it the 116th largest country here - about 9.1 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 106 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Vienna, at 48.20ยฐ N, 16.36ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 2,400,000.
Shares land borders with 8 countries: Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Liechtenstein (and 3 more).
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Vienna.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Austro-Bavarian German.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
Land neighbours
8 countries share a border with Austria.