Country (Austria)

Map of the nine federal states of Austria

Political landscape of the federal states

A state or federal state is a member state of the federally organized Republic of Austria . The federal states represent local authorities , i.e. legally independent entities. Within the federal constitution one speaks of the state level as the opposite of the federal level .

Position of the countries in the state

The states have their own state constitutions , which may not contradict the federal constitution. In addition, they have their own legislative bodies with the state parliaments and their own executive bodies with the state governments . The judiciary , on the other hand, with the exception of administrative jurisdiction , belongs to the federal government alone.

The states are also administrative units of the federal government; In the context of indirect federal administration , state bodies also work for the federal government.

Five of the nine Austrian federal states, Lower Austria, Carinthia, Styria, Tyrol, Salzburg (as an archbishopric), were established in the Middle Ages , Upper Austria became independent under Joseph II in 1783/84; Vorarlberg was part of Tyrol for a long time and became independent in 1861; In 1921 Burgenland, which had been part of Hungary until then, was added. In 1922 Vienna was finally separated from Lower Austria and raised to the status of a separate federal state.

For major border changes between the federal states, laws of the federal government and the affected states must be the same. If only border adjustments between the countries are carried out, the corresponding laws of the countries concerned are sufficient.

About the terms country and state

The Federal Constitutional Law mainly uses the term land instead of federal state . The state constitutions also follow this choice of words.

Overview of the nine countries

flag	coat of arms	Name (abbr.)	ISO 3166-2: AT	NUTS	State capital	Governor (party)	Majority government / parliament seats	Inh. (January 1, 2020)	Area in km²	EW / km²	Statutory cities	Pole. Districts	Cities	Communities	Localities
		Burgenland ( Bgld.)	1	AT11	Eisenstadt	Hans Peter Doskozil (SPÖ)	SPÖ (19) total: 36	294,436	3,962	74	2	7th	13	171	328
		Carinthia (Ktn.)	2	AT21	Klagenfurt am Wörthersee	Peter Kaiser (SPÖ)	SPÖ  (18) ÖVP  (6) total: 36	561.293	9,538	59	2	8th	17th	132	2,824
		Lower Austria (NE)	3	AT12	St. Polten	Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP)	ÖVP  (29) SPÖ  (13) FPÖ  (8) Total: 56	1,684,287	19,186	88	4th	20th	76	573	3,829
		Upper Austria (Upper Austria)	4th	AT31	Linz	Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP)	ÖVP  (21) FPÖ  (18) SPÖ  (11) The Greens  (6) Total: 56	1,490,279	11,980	124	3	15th	32	438	6,603
		Salzburg (Sbg.)	5	AT32	Salzburg	Wilfried Haslauer junior (ÖVP)	ÖVP  (15) The Greens  (3) NEOS (3) Total: 36	558.410	7.156	78	1	5	11	119	710
		Styria ( Styria)	6th	AT22	Graz	Hermann Schützenhöfer (ÖVP)	ÖVP  (18) SPÖ  (12) total: 48	1,246,395	16.401	76	1	13	35	539	2,062
		Tyrol (T)	7th	AT33	innsbruck	Günther Platter (ÖVP)	ÖVP  (17) The Greens  (4) Total: 36	757.634	12,640	60	1	9	11	279	634
		Vorarlberg ( vbg.)	8th	AT34	Bregenz	Markus Wallner (ÖVP)	ÖVP  (16) The Greens  (6) Total: 36	397.139	2,601	153	-	4th	5	96	156
		Vienna (W)	9	AT13	-	Michael Ludwig (SPÖ)	SPÖ  (44) The Greens  (10) Total: 100	1,911,191	415	4605	1	-	1	1	23
flag	coat of arms	Name (abbr.)	ISO 3166-2: AT	NUTS	State capital	Governor (party)	Majority government / parliament seats	Inh. (January 1, 2020)	Area in km²	EW / km²	Statutory cities	Pole. Districts	Cities	Communities	Localities

See also

Portal: Austria  - Overview of Wikipedia content on Austria

• Flags and coats of arms of the countries of Austria
• List of cities in Austria
• Political system of Austria
• Distribution of seats in the Austrian state parliaments
• List of Austrian federal states according to the human development index
• List of the Austrian federal states according to gross domestic product

Web links

Commons : Austrian federal states  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} 3012: Austrian federal states. In: Umweltbundesamt.at. Retrieved July 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} NUTS units. In: statistik.at. Statistics Austria, accessed on November 7, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} in brackets: Indication of the seats of parties that are involved in the state government according to the proportional system but are not involved in a labor agreement or coalition.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics Austria: “Statistisches Jahrbuch 2008”, p. 37 or section 01 “Geographical and meteorological overviews, administrative divisions”, paragraph 1.13 “Area and types of use”, as of January 1, 2008
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} localities (excluding Vienna) sorted according to community code with postcodes (XLS, approx. 2.2 MB). Statistics Austria, accessed on January 3, 2018 .