AUSTRIA (Home of Castles)

AUSTRIA (Home of Castles)

Summary:

1) Introduction.
2) Map and Flag.
3) Borders.
4) Regions / Federated States.
5) Main cities.
6) Relief.
7) Climate.

1) INTRODUCTION:

Austria is located in the Central Europe and a member of European Union as well. In Austria, the country is called Österreich.

Capital: Vienna.
Population (2017): 8, 645 million inhabitants.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP): 376.95 Billion Dollars.
Official language: German, Hungarian and Slovenian.
Area: 83 879 km^2.
Currency: Euro.

2) MAP AND FLAG:

 AUSTRIA MAP

VIENNA , AUSTRIA

AUSTRIA FLAG

3) BORDER:

Austria is bordered by the Czech Republic to the north; Slovakia to the northeast; Hungary to the east; Slovenia, Italy and Switzerland to the south; Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Germany to the west.

4) REGIONS:

Austria is divided into 9 provinces or Länder: Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Upper Austria, Vienna and Vorarlberg. The Länder enforce federal laws on elections, communications and public assistance. They also manage all matters of local interest that are not the responsibility of the state. The districts (Bezirkshauptmannschaften) and the communes are subordinate to them.

5) MAIN CITIES:

Vienna is the capital and main city of the country. Second important cities is Graz, a center of heavy load industry. Linz is the provincial capital of Upper Austria and port on the Danube. Salzburg, cultural and tourist center and Innsbruck, Tyrol's provincial capital and tourist town.

6) RELIEF:

The pre-Alps of Bavaria, Salzburg, the Carinthian, Styrian, Tauern and Tyrolean Alps alone cover 80% of the population. 100 of the country. The subalpine regions are limited to a few narrow plains and the Danube basin. The relief of Austria is recent, and the configuration of the eastern Alps, which constitute the greater part of Austrian territory, three parallel bands aligned from east to west, is typical of Alpine systems. There is a very high first zone, the Hohe Tauern, which culminates in Grossglockner (3797 m) and whose altitude decreases towards the east; then, to the south, the high Alps, separated from the Carnic Alps by the furrow of the Drava. To the north, they are doubled by pre-Alps, which develop beyond the high valleys of the tributaries of the Danube, the Inn, the Salzach, the Enns and the Leitha. These rivers join the Danube to the north, separating the Prealps by beautiful transverse cluses. To the north, the Prealps fall and meet the Danubian plain. To the east, the Danube Valley widens after Vienna in the Moravian Plain and, to the south-east, between the Leitha and the Styrian Alps, in Burgenland - which is an advance of the Great Hungarian Plain . The average altitude of the country is close to 910 m. The main chains include the North Tyrol Alps and the Salzburg Alps. In the center, the Noric Alps with the Hohe Tauern and Nieder Tauern, in the south, the Carnic Alps and the Karawanken Alps. The Austrian Alps, as in Italy, are pierced by passes, the most important of which are the Brenner Pass and the Semmering Pass. North of the Danube, Austria only has the southern fallout of the Bohemian Massif.
The plains are located in the northern and eastern border areas. The northern part corresponds to high undulating plateaus, and the eastern border region lies partly in the Danube basin.

7) CLIMATE:

The climate of Austria is continental, but varies according to the altitude, the situation with respect to the Atlantic and certain local winds. Mountain regions partly benefit from the moderating effects of the Atlantic winds: rainfall is everywhere over 500 mm per year; however, it decreases from west to east as the climate becomes more continental: from more than 2 000 mm per year in the Bavarian Alps, to 800 mm in the Vienna Basin. In addition, the basins and basins intramontagnard know, compared to other regions, significant thermal differences. In winter, cold air stagnates and accumulates in the valleys, causing a temperature inversion: it is colder in Klagenfurt (448 m) than in Sonnblick (3 100 m). The average annual temperatures in the country range from about 6.7 ° C to 8.9 ° C. The average annual rainfall is between 1016 and 1270 mm.

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Illustration Credits : Muhammad Sharjeel