Austria (Republik Österreich) is a federal republic state with a parliamentary democracy, it's composed by nine Länder: Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Vienna. Austria confines with the Czech Republic to north, the Germany to the north-west, Switzerland and the Liechtenstein to the west, with Italy and the Slovenia to south, with Hungary and the Slovakian Republic to east. Vienna, the state capital has approximately 1/4 of the entire nation population, the most populated area is the Danube valley, with Vienna, Linz and numerous cities; the other densily inhabitated areas are that of the Inn river valley, where Innsbruck is found; that of the Salzach river valley, where Salisburgo is found; and that of the Drava river valley, where is Graz.

Geographically, Austria lies in Central Europe, on the northern side of the Alps chain. The western and southern part of the country is constituted from the Alps, that comprise part of the Retycs Alps and all the group of the Eastern Alps (the Austrians Alps, Taurus, the Norichs Alps and Carnics). Approximately 60% of the Austrian territory it's constituted from mountains, that reached the highest point with the mount Grossglockner (3797 m) that is found in the National Park of the Hohe Tauern. The extreme Southeastern part of the country, the northern Burgenland, is part of the pannonic plain; while northern Austria comprises the Plateau of the Danube and, to the north-west, the southern reliefs of Boemia.