Eastern Austria

Federal states : 3 NOE, 9 WIE, 1 BLD, 6 STM (the numbers denote the usual alphabetical sorting; a shade of red marks the alpine south-west of Austria)

Eastern Austria refers to the east of Austria .

General and cultural geographic area

In the general geographic sense, Eastern Austria includes the federal states of Lower Austria and Burgenland as well as the federal capital Vienna including the federal state of the same name itself. In a broader sense, however, the east of Styria is also included, more precisely that part of Austria east of the 15th  degree of longitude (15 ° E). The region includes the pre-alpine eastern part of the Alps ( Eastern Alps ), the Alpine-Carpathian foothills , the Vienna Basin with the Marchfeld , in a broader sense also the entire Alpine foothills in the southeast . Biogeographically and climatically, the area is shaped by the border area between the Pannonian and Atlantic climates with the corresponding eco-zones.

It is used more rarely for the entire eastern half of Austria, since Austria has a west-east extension of 577.2 km, which is almost eastward from Salzburg , and then the direct opposite of western Austria as the narrow western tongue of the country.

Statistics region Eastern Austria

NUTS: AT -1 (the numbers indicate the NUTS-2 regions)

AT-1 Eastern Austria

In the statistical sense (as a NUTS region ) the expression means the group of federal states of Lower Austria, Vienna and Burgenland.

Eastern Austria in this definition comprises 28.091% of the area of ​​Austria (23,562.71 km ² ) and 43.049% of the resident population (3,633,497) The area is characterized by the commercial and industrial central area of ​​Vienna and the surrounding area, and otherwise agriculture and forestry for Austria relatively little tourism . The economic data show a strong gradient to the central area, with clear structural weaknesses in the peripheral zones of the region.

See also

• Large landscapes of Austria
• South Austria , West Austria

literature

• Regional data for Austria in NUTS breakdown . NUTS breakdown of Austria. In: Statistics Austria ÖSTAT (Ed.): Statistical Yearbook Austria 2009 . Vienna 2010, section 37, p. 429 ff . ( pdf , statistik.at [accessed on January 8, 2010]).

Maps:

• Austria East Federal Office for Eich- u. Surveying, 1999, ISBN 978-3-95010-0211

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} AT total: area 83,878.99 km ² ; EW 8,440,465 Status: January 1, 2012; all information Statistics Austria: Statistical Yearbook 2011