Living & Working in Austria Land area - Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich

1. General
1.1 Geography and population
Austria covers an area of 83,871 square kilometres with a population of 8,331,930 residents, (as of
1st of January 2008) including 854,752 foreign citizens (10% of total population).
Vienna is the most densely populated province of Austria with 4,043 residents per square kilometre;
Tyrol is the least densely populated province with 55 inhabitants per square kilometre (population as
of 1st of January 2008). The average newborn life expectancy in 2008 is 80 years.
Austria is bordered by Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary,
Slovenia and Italy.
Austria is a federal state comprised of nine provinces; each province has its own capital:
Source: webs.schule.at
province population provincial Capital population (2006)
Burgenland 280,257 Eisenstadt 12,180
Carinthia 560,407 Klagenfurt 92,160
Lower Austria 1,589,580 St. Pölten 51,073
Upper Austria 1,405,674 Linz 188,362
Salzburg 529,574 Salzburg 148,473
Styria 1,203,918 Graz 244,604
Tyrol 700,427 Innsbruck 116,851
Vorarlberg 364,940 Bregenz 27,200
Vienna 1,664,145 Vienna 1,664,145
Living & Working in Austria 2008
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