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Area: total: 83,870 sq km
land: 82,444 sq km
water: 1,426 sq km

Climate: temperate continental, cloudy cold winters with frequent rain and some snow in lowlands and snow in mountains moderate summers with occasional showers

Terrain: in the west and south mostly mountains [Alps] along the eastern and northern margins mostly flat or gently sloping

Natural resources: oil, coal, lignite, timber, iron ore, copper, zinc, antimony, magnesite, tungsten, graphite, salt, hydropower

Population: 8,205,533 [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.8% [male 621,326/female 592,131]
15-64 years: 67.5% [male 2,783,531/female 2,753,389]
65 years and over: 17.7% [male 599,415/female 855,741] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Austrian[s]
adjective: Austrian

Ethnic groups: Austrians 91.1%, former Yugoslavs 4% [includes Croatians, Slovenes, Serbs, and Bosniaks], Turks 1.6%, German 0.9%, other or unspecified 2.4% [2001 census]

Languages: German [official nationwide] 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian [official in Burgenland] 1.6%, other [includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland] 5.3% [2001 census]

Capital: name: Vienna
geographic coordinates: 48 12 N, 16 22 E
time difference: UTC+1 [6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March ends last Sunday in October

National holiday: National Day, 26 October [1955] note - commemorates the passage of the law on permanent neutrality

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.6%
industry: 30.3%
services: 68% [2007 est.]

Labor force: 3.566 million [2007 est.]

Budget: revenues: $179.3 billion
expenditures: $181.8 billion [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: grains, potatoes, sugar beets, wine, fruit dairy products, cattle, pigs, poultry lumber

Industries: construction, machinery, vehicles and parts, food, metals, chemicals, lumber and wood processing, paper and paperboard, communications equipment, tourism

Exports: $164.9 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs

Exports - partners: Germany 30.1%, Italy 9%, US 5.8%, Switzerland 4.7% [2006]

Imports: $162.7 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal goods, oil and oil products foodstuffs

Imports - partners: Germany 45.4%, Italy 7%, Switzerland 4.5%, Netherlands 4.1% [2006]

Currency (code): euro [EUR]

Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.7345 [2007], 0.7964 [2006], 0.8041 [2005], 0.8054 [2004], 0.886 [2003]

Airports: 55 [2007]

Railways: total: 6,383 km
standard gauge: 5,924 km 1.435-m gauge [3,772 km electrified]
narrow gauge: 371 km 1.000-m gauge 88 km 0.760-m gauge [25 km electrified] [2006]

Merchant marine: total: 7 ships [1000 GRT or over] 31,705 GRT/40,627 DWT
by type: cargo 5, container 2
foreign-owned: 2 [Netherlands 2]
registered in other countries: 4 [Cyprus 1, Malta 1, St Vincent and The Grenadines 2] [2007]

Ports and terminals: Enns, Krems, Linz, Vienna