Living & Working in Austria

1. GENERAL
1.1 Geography and Population
Austria covers an area of 83,878 square kilometres with a population of 8,375,290 residents, (as of
1 st of January 2010) including 895,144 foreign citizens (11% of total population).
Vienna is the most densely populated province of Austria with 4,097 residents per square kilometre;
Tyrol is the least densely populated province with 56 inhabitants per square kilometre (population as
of 1 st of January 2010). The average newborn life expectancy in 2009 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
Living & Working in Austria 2010
Population
as of Jan. 1, 2010 Provincial Capital
Population
as of Jan. 1, 2010
Burgenland 283,965 Eisenstadt 12,856
Carinthia 559,315 Klagenfurt 93,949
Lower Austria 1,607,976 St. Pölten 51,688
Upper Austria 1,411,238 Linz 189,311
Salzburg 529,861 Salzburg 147,571
Styria 1,208,372 Graz 257,328
Tyrol 706,873 Innsbruck 119,249
Vorarlberg 368,868 Bregenz 27,456
Vienna 1,698,822 Vienna 1,698,822
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