The majority of the population speak local Austro-Bavarian dialects of German as their native language and German in its standard form is the country’s official language.
Other local official languages are Burgenland Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene
Currency: Euro
Religion: Predominately Catholic.
Pop: 8.5 million
Government: Federal Parliamentary republic
Largerst City: Vienna pop: about 1.5 million.
States: nine
State Capital Pop
Burgenland Eisenstadt 280,350
2Carinthia (Kärnten) Klagenfurt 560,753
Lower Austria (Niederösterreich) St. Pölten 1,588,545
Upper Austria (Oberösterreich) Linz 1,405,986
Salzburg Salzburg 529,085
Styria (Steiermark) Graz 1,203,986
Tyrol (Tirol) Innsbruck 698,472
Vorarlberg Bregenz 364,611
Vienna (Wien) Vienna (Wien) 1,660,534
Currency: Euro
Drive: On Right
Calling Code : 43
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Austrians are relatively homogeneous; about 90% speak German as their everyday language.
However, there has been a significant amount of immigration, particularly from former Yugoslavia and Turkey, over the past 2 decades.
Only two numerically significant autochthonous minority groups exist–18,000
Slovenes in Carinthia (south central Austria) and about 19,400 Croats in Burgenland (on the Hungarian border). Slovene and Croat minority rights are protected under Austria’s 1955 State Treaty and in related national law. In the 2001 census, 74% of Austrians identified themselves as Roman Catholic. According to the Catholic Church, this proportion was expected to drop by the 2011 census.
The church abstains from political activity. Immigration has increased the proportion of Muslims and Orthodox in Austria.
Small Lutheran minorities are located mainly in Vienna, Carinthia, and Burgenland.
There are some Islamic communities, concentrated in Vienna and Vorarlberg.
Austria is a largely mountainous country due to its location in the Alps
Climate: The greater part of Austria lies in the cool/temperate climate zone in which humid westerly winds predominate. With over half of the country dominated by the Alps, the alpine climate is the predominant one. In the east—in the Pannonian Plain and along the Danube valley—the climate shows continental features with less rain than the alpine areas. Although Austria is cold in the winter (−10 – 0 °C), summer temperatures can be relatively warm,[65] with average temperatures in the mid-20s and a highest temperature of 39.7 °C (103.5 °F)
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Minimum validity of travel documents
EU, EEA and Swiss citizens, as well as non-EU citizens who are visa-exempt (e.g. New Zealanders and Australians), need only produce a passport which is valid for the entirety of their stay in Austria.
Other nationals who are required to have a visa (e.g. South Africans), however, must produce a passport which has at least 3 months’ validity beyond their period of stay in Austria.
More information about the minimum validity of travel documents is available at the Austrian Foreign Ministry’s website.
Austria is a member of the Schengen Agreement.
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There are no border controls between countries that have signed and implemented the treaty – the European Union (except Bulgaria, Cyprus, Ireland, Romania and the United Kingdom), Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
