Southern Austria

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Federal states : 7 TIR / East Tyrol, 2 KTN, 6 STM, 1 BLD (the numbers denote the usual alphabetical sorting; red color marks the alpine south-west of Austria)

South Austria refers to the south of Austria .

General and cultural geographic area

Austrian Circle , 1681 - South Austria in the middle of the sheet

In the general geographic sense, Southern Austria encompasses the federal state of Carinthia , the region of East Tyrol , most of Styria and southern Burgenland , meaning the parts of Austria that lie south of the main Alpine ridge , roughly the line Brenner Pass - Neusiedlersee . The region comprises the southeastern part of the Alps and the Alpine foreland in the southeast . Biogeographically and climatically, the area is characterized by the border area of ​​the Illyrian climate , the Pannonian climate and the Alpine climate with the corresponding eco-zones.

In a cultural-geographic sense, this corresponds to the historical threefolding of the Duchy of Austria , with Inner Austria as the southern parts of the country (historically up to the Adriatic Sea ), the "actual" (Lower) Austria ( Lower and Upper Austria ) and Upper Austria ( Tyrol with Vorarlberg ), as well the Archdiocese of Salzburg (only joined Austria in 1803) Traces of this history can be found both in customs and traditions, as well as in the regional awareness of identity . In terms of language , South Bavarian dialects predominate, and Slavic influences are also evident in terms of culture .

According to the Austrian understanding, the region already shows slightly Mediterranean features in terms of living space and culture, comparable to South Tyrol .

Statistics region South Austria

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

    • In the statistical sense (as a NUTS region ) the expression means the group of federal states of Carinthia and Styria.

    Southern Austria in this definition comprises 30.924% of the area of ​​Austria (25,938.45 km 2 ), and 20.975% of the resident population (1,770,395) The area is characterized by a few industrial and mining centers and otherwise small and medium-sized enterprises , agriculture , forestry , with relatively little tourism for Austria . The economic data outside of the urban centers of Graz , Klagenfurt and Villach are below average.

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    • 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 . ( ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: statistik.at ) [PDF; accessed on January 8, 2010]).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.statistik.at
    • P. Mayerhofer, G. Palme, M. Gruber, O. Fritz, P. Huber, S. Pohn-Weidinger, M. Payer, M. Ploder, C. Hartmann, H. Gassler, F. Prettenthaler, R. Kurzmann: Economic area of ​​southern Austria. Study on behalf of WIFO and InTeReg . 2 volumes (Part I: Analyzes , Part II. Concept ). Vienna 2003 ( joanneum.at [accessed January 8, 2010] abstract).

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    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