Austria lies in central Europe and encompasses the Eastern Alps and Danube region. It has common borders with 8 countries and its capital and largest city is Vienna. Austria has a population of around 8.5 million people and its official language is German. The country has a long history and was once the center of the powerful Habsburg Empire. Today, Austria has a strong economy focused on industry, agriculture, and tourism, especially skiing and mountain activities in its Alpine regions.

1. REPUBLIC of
AUSTRIA
By: Ahmed Zareer

3. • Austria lies in southern Central Europe and
encompasses both the Eastern Alps, which cover
almost two-thirds of its territory, and the Danube
region.
• Because of its location, the country has always
been a crossroads between the great economic
and cultural regions of Europe.
• Austria has common borders with eight
countries: Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland and
Liechtenstein.

5. General Facts
• Official Name: The Republic of Austria.
• Population: 8.49 million (01 Jan, 2013).
• Life expectancy: Men, 77/ Women, 82.79
Years,(2012).
• Official language: German Language
• Currency: Euro ‘€’
• Total area: 84,000 km2

6. Transportation
• Railways: 6,399 km (3,552 km electrified)
(2011).
• Highways: 110,778 km; (including 1,677 km
of express ways) (2011).
• Water ways: 358 km (2007).
• Ports and harbors: Enns, Krems, Linz,
Vienna.
• Airports: 55 (2011)

7. Railways Map

8. Road Map

9. Highways

10. Waterways Map

11. Airports

12. • Ethnic Groups:
- Major ethnic groups are:
Austrians, (Germanic) 91.1%, former
Yugoslavs 4% (Croatians, Slovenes, Serbs,
Bosniaks), Turks 1.6%, German 0.9%, other or
unspecified 2.4% (2001)
• Religions.
- Christian Catholic: 63.2%
- Christian Protestant: 7 %
- Muslims: 6.2%
- Non religious: 12%

13. Public Holidays
• New Year's Day: 1st January
• Easter: 19th April - 21st April
• National Holiday: 1st May
• Assumption of the Virgin Mary: 15th August
• National Holiday: 26th October
• Christmas: 24th - 26th December

14. • Banking working Hours (general):
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday:8am to
12:30pm & 1:30pm to 3pm
Thursday:
8am to 12:30pm & 1:30pm to 5:30pm

15. Climate of Austria
Due to the topographical diversity and the relatively large
west-east expanse, there are three quite
different climatic regions:
• East: hot summers but only moderately cold winters.
• Alpine Region: High precipitation, short summers and
long winters.
• West: transient climate influenced by the Atlantic (in
the West) and a continental influence in the South-east.
• Temperatures:
Summer : Average of 20° degree.
 Winter : Average of 0° degree.

16. Geography of Austria
• Approximately 60% of Austrian territory is
mountainous and belongs to the Eastern Alps (Tyrol
Central Alps, Hohe Tauern and Niedere Tauern,
Northern Calcareous or Limestone Alps, Southern
Calcareous Alps and Wienerwald)

17. • Austria’s geographical position has long made
it a crossroads for trade routes between the
major European economic and cultural
areas.
• The highest mountain peak in Austria is a
part of the Alps is The Grossglockner as its
3798 m high

19. Most Important Lakes in Austria
1. Lake Neusiedl The largest lake in Europe 315 km²
extends as far as Hungary. also known as the “Sea
of the Viennese”. The vast waters are so shallow
that you could walk across the lake and not go out
of your depth.

20. 2. Achensee
Achensee lake is largest lake in Tyrol and the
second largest lake in Austria with 6.8 km².

21. 3. Faaker See lake.
Considered to be the most beautiful lake in
Austria also called as Alpine lake which is
located in Carinthia with a surface area of 2.2
km².

22. 4. Seegrotte Lake
Occupies not far away from Vienna in the village
of Hinterbrül, there is the cave system with
the largest underground lake in Europe with
area at 6.2 Km².

23. Rivers of Austria

24. Danube River
The Danube is a river in Central and Eastern
Europe, the European Union's longest and the
continent's second longest river in Europe
after Volga river with a length of 2,860 km.

25. History of Austria
EARLY ERA
• There was a settlement in Austria science the
Paleolithic age until 800 BC at the Danube
Valley and the Alpine valleys.
• In 400 BC the Celtic peoples from Western
Europe settled in the eastern Alps and left us
some of there iron made artifacts.

26. • 200 BC The Roman came to the area and by 15 BC
they dominated the hole area.
• The most important Roman settlement in Austria
was “Carnuntum”.
• Most important Romanians ruins in Carnuntum.
Amphitheater Pagans' Gate

27. • 60 AD many of the German trips extended in
Austria.
• mid-500’s AD the Bavarians controlled the
territory between the eastern Alps and the
Wienerwald region.
• 800 AD Charlemagne established a territory in
the Danube valley known as the Ostmark
(Eastern March)
• 996 AD the Ostmark was first referred to as
"Ostarrichi", a clear forerunner of the modern
German word "Österreich".

28. The Habsburgs Empire 1279-1780.
• 14th century Rudolf I announced a six
centuries of Habsburg rule in Austria.
• The Imperial Palace in Vienna is one of the
most important building in the Habsburgs
Empire.

29. • Turkish Wars
The Ottoman Empire (Turks) threat, which
included unsuccessful sieges of Vienna in 1529
and in 1683, prompted Poland, Venice, and
Russia to join the Habsburg Empire in repelling
the Turks.
• In the late 1690s, command of the imperial
forces was entrusted to Prince Eugene of
Savoy. Under his leadership, Habsburg forces
won control of all but a small portion of
Hungary by 1699.

30. The Battle for Vienna

31. The Holocaust in Austria
• March 12, 1938, German troops
occupied the country.
• November 1938, the Nazis launched the
Kristallnacht pogrom in Austria as well
as in Germany.
• From March1938 to April 1945, most of
the Jewish population (200,000) of the
country was murdered or forced into
exile.

32. • On May 15, 1955, the Austrian
State Treaty was ratified, with
Austria declaring its
permanent neutrality.
• 1995 Austria becomes a
member of the European
Union.

33. Industry in Austria
• Metals industries, both production and related
manufacturing accounted for 43.1%.
• Chemicals 12.6 %,
• Foods and beverages 11.8%,
• Forest products and paper 11.6%,
• Textiles, leather, and clothing 7.7%,
• Glass, pottery, and quarrying 5.3 percent,
• Mining 4.%,
• and Petrochemicals with 3.2 percent.

35. Agriculture and Forestry
• Small and midsize rural structures
252,000 farms with the average
size of 16 hectares*
• Building of grains: 60% of the land is arbale land 60%
grass land – cattle attitude and milk production.
• The production of beef
Covers 140% of the National
requirements.
• Cultivation of wine.
* 1 hectare = 10,000 m²

37. Tourism Sector
• Tourism sector is high value niche in the
Austrian economy as the contribution of the
overall tourism and leisure industry to GDP
was 14.8%.
• The direct and indirect value added from
tourism recorded for 2012 was €45.53 billion.

38. Visitor expenditure

39. Austria in Tourism and Travel
Competitiveness Index 2013
In 2013 Austria
comes in the
3rd place in
the Tourism
and Travel
competitiven
ess Index
(TTCI).

40. Number of Tourist 2013
In the year of 2013 there increasing of the
number of the tourist by 1.2% compared to
2012.

41. List of Austrian sites on the list
of world heritage of UNESCO

42. City of Graz
Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg bear
witness to an exemplary model of the living
heritage of a central European urban complex
influenced by the secular presence of the
Habsburgs and the cultural and artistic role
played by the main aristocratic families.

43. City of Graz – Historic Centre and
Schloss Eggenberg 1999

44. The Fertö/Neusiedler Lake
Has been the meeting place of different
cultures for eight millennia. This is graphically
demonstrated by its varied landscape, the
result of an evolutionary symbiosis between
human activity and the physical environment

45. Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural
Landscape 2001

46. Salzkammergut
Human activity in the magnificent natural
landscape of the Salzkammergut began in
prehistoric times, with the salt deposits being
exploited as early as the 2nd millennium BC

47. Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut
Cultural Landscape 1997

48. Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
• Salzburg has managed to preserve an
extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed
over the period from the Middle Ages to the
19th century when it was a city-state ruled by
a prince-archbishop. Its Flamboyant Gothic
art attracted many craftsmen and artists

49. Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
1996

50. Historic Centre of Vienna
• The historic centre of Vienna is rich in
architectural ensembles, including Baroque
castles and gardens, as well as the late-19th-century
Ringstrasse lined with grand
buildings, monuments and parks.

51. Historic Centre of Vienna
2001

52. Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
From the 18th century to 1918, Schönbrunn
was the residence of the Habsburg emperors.
It was designed by the architects Johann
Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Nicolaus
Pacassi and is full of outstanding examples of
decorative art

53. Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
1998

54. Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the
Alps
This serial property of 111 small individual sites
encompasses the remains of prehistoric pile-dwelling
(or stilt house) settlements in and
around the Alps built from around 5000 to
500 B.C. on the edges of lakes, rivers or
wetlands

55. Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the
Alps 2011

56. Semmering Railway
• The Semmering Railway, built over 41 km of
high mountains between 1848 and 1854, is
one of the greatest feats of civil engineering
from this pioneering phase of railway
building.

57. Semmering Railway
1998

58. Wachau Cultural Landscape
• The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley
between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high
visual quality. It preserves in an intact and
visible form many traces - in terms of
architecture, (monasteries, castles, ruins),
urban design, (towns and villages), and
agricultural use, principally for the cultivation
of vines - of its evolution since prehistoric
times.

59. Wachau Cultural Landscape
2000

60. Vorarlberg

61. Facts about Vorarlberg
• the westernmost, and second smallest
Austrian federal state after Vienna
• capital: Bregenz
• Total Area: 2.601 km²
• Population: 373,058 people
• Main area for winter sports is the Arlberg
region

62. The Arlberg is not a mountain but the
mountain pass (1793m) between Vorarlberg
and Tyrol

63. • Lake Constance (Bodensee) is one of the
biggest lakes in Europe

64. Cheese
• Cheese is one of the main agricultural
products of Vorarlberg. Alpine cheese or
"Bergkäse" is a regional specialty.
• Vorarlberg has about 40 regional types of
cheese

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69. Skiing trails of Vorarlberg

70. Tyrol

71. Facts about Tyrol (Tirol)
Capital: Innsbruck
Total Area: 12,683.85 km2
Population: 714,469

72. Tyrol
• Dominated by the wonderful peaks of
the Alps
• Neighbor federal states: Salzburg,
Vorarlberg.
• Neighbor countries : Germany, Italy,
Switzerland

73. Tyrol
• The highest mountain of
North Tyrol is called
Wildspitze
(3768m)
• Stubaier Alpen (more
• than
3000m high)

74. Tyrol
• Tyrol is famous of its bread and its important
as a tradition for Easter.

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78. Skiing trails of Tyrol

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Carinthia

80. Fact about Carinthia
Capital: Klagenfurt
Area: 9.535 km²
Population: 558,300

81. Carinthia (karinsiya)
• Chemical, mechanical engineering and
electrical industries are increasing
constantly in the region.
• Tourism industry is one of the most
important sectors for this state.

82. Carinthia
• Has a different tourist attraction
such as Klagenfurt city and Villach.
Also the midlevel towns such as
Friesach and Gmünd

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84. Villach

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86. Friesach

87. Salzburg

88. Fact about Salzburg
• capital: Salzburg
• Area: 65.678 km2
• Population: 145,871

89. Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in
Austria and the capital of the federal
state of Salzburg. Salzburg's "Old Town"
has internationally renowned baroque
architecture and one of the best-preserved
city centers north of the Alps

90. • Salzburg is a tourist destination for winter
sports and various music festivals.
• Mozart was born in Salzburg
(1755-1791)
• Hermann Maier (skier)

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94. Upper
Austria

95. Facts about Upper Austria
• Capital: Linz
• Area: 11,981.92 km2
• Population: 1,416,772

96. • Considerd to be the fourth-largest federal
state.
• Landscape concest of meny mountains, such
as Totes Gebirge (Dead Mountains),
Dachsteingebirge, Höllengebirge (Hell’s
Mountains)
• Also concest of meny lakes and rivers, such as
the Salzkammergut Lakes, the Danube River
and the Enns River

99. Lower Austria

100. Fact about Lower Austria
• Capital: Sankt Pölten
• Area: 19,186 km2
• Population: 1,612,000

101. • Located in the north-east of Austria
• Austria’s largest federal state.
Mountains:
• Hocheck (1061m)
• Schneeberg (2076m)
Passes crossing the Alps:
• Semmering (985m)
connecting Lower Austria and Styria
• Wechsel (980m)
connecting Lower Austria and Styria

102. • It has 36 rivers, among them: Danube,
Traisen, March and Thaya.
• the Wachau Valley is an
important wine
growing area and a
World Heritage Site

103. Wachau Valley Wine Tour

105. AND FINALLY

106. Vienna

107. General Facts
• Area: 414.65 km
• Population: 1,765,649 and
growing
• Ethnicity:
61.2% Austrian
38.8% others

108. • The capital of Austria and a federal state
at the same time.
• Vienna has more than 20% of Austria's
population
• And considered to be its cultural,
economical and political center.

109. The city was ranked 1st globally for its
culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008,
and fifth globally (out of 256 cities) in
the 2011 innovation city index , which
analyzed 162 indicators in covering
three areas: culture, infrastructure and
markets

110. Each year since 2005, Vienna has
been the world's number one
destination for international
congresses and conventions. It
attracts about five million tourists a
year

111. “Vienna” City
of Music
Music is one of Vienna's legacies. Musical
prodigies including Mozart, Joseph
Haydn, Franz Schubert and Gustav
Mahler have worked there in Vienna

112. State Opera

113. • Art and culture had a long tradition in
Vienna, including theatre, opera, classical
music and fine arts. The Burgtheater is
considered one of the best theatres in the
German-speaking world alongside its branch,
the Akademietheater

114. Tourist Attraction of Vienna
• City Hall
• Parliament
• Burgtheater
• Hofburg
• Staatsoper

115. The Vienna City Hall
The City Hall is one of the most splendid
amongst the numerous monumental buildings
along Vienna's. Designed by Friedrich
Schmidt (1825-1891), it was erected between
1872 and 1883. The architecture of
the Ringstraße is dominated by historicism

117. Parliament
The foundation stone was laid in 1874; the
building was completed in 1883. The
architect responsible for its Greek
revival style was Theophil Hansen. He
designed the building holistically, each
element harmonizing with the others.

119. Burgtheater
Burgtheater, originally known as K.K. Theater
an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K.
Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National
Theatre in Vienna and one of the most
important German language theatres in the
world

121. Hofburg
• Hofburg Palace is a palace located in Vienna,
Austria, that has housed some of the most
powerful people in European and Austrian
history, including the Habsburg dynasty,
rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

125. Thank You