In the centre of Europe, Austria is linking “old” and “new” EU-member states. For decades the eastern borders of Austria have been closed due to the Iron curtain. Nowadays Austria and the Eastern European neighbours intensify relations rapidly.
The Austrian landscape differs a lot from east to west. Two thirds of Austria consist of the Alps and are therefore quite mountainous or even high alpine. The eastern and northern parts are lowland forests and Pannonian plains. The Alps end some kilometres west of Vienna – not far away in the Slovak Republic they find their counterpart: The Carpathians.
The capital of Austria is Vienna with about 1.6 million inhabitants. All in all about 8 million people live in Austria.
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