Basic Information About Austria:

Population: The population of Austria is 8,581,108.

GDP:  $ 395.5 billion (2016)

Climate:  The climate in Austria is widely continental with the Eastern edge of the country stretching into the Pannonian climate zone. It is typical for Central Europe with cold winters (going down to minus 20 degrees Celsius during the night) and hot and sunny summers (going up to 35 degrees Celsius during some days in August). 

People:  Austrians are of mixed Dinaric, Nordic, Alpine, and East Baltic origin. Germans constitute about 88% of the total population. Ethnic minorities include Croatians in the Burgenland, making up about 0.3% of the population, and Slovenes in southern Carinthia, accounting for about 0.2%. Other groups comprise the remaining 0.1%, including Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Serbians, and Italians.

Religion:  Approximately 59.9% of the population are Catholic. There is a much smaller group of Evangelicals, totaling about 4.7% of the population in 2001, 3.5%

Capital:  Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria.

Language:   The official language is German and nearly 99% of the inhabitants speak it as their mother tongue.

Currency:  The Euro (symbol: €) is the currency of Austria.

Time Zone: UTC+01:00