"This European heartland combines a wide variety of landscapes, climatic conditions and flora. Austria´s landscapes range from the peaks of the Alps to hill country and plains. The foothills of the Alps and the Carpathians, the Vienna Basin and the Austrian segment of the Pannonian Plain in the East are the principal areas of settlement and economic activity. Austria´s highest mountain is the Grossglockner (3,797 metres / 12,530 feet). Its longest river is the Danube, which flows through Austria for a length of some 350 kilometres (220 miles).

Austria is located within a temperate climatic zone. In the west and northwest the influence of the temperate Atlantic climate is felt more strongly, in the east the influence of the continental climate. Precipitation levels vary significantly along a west-east axis and rise with altitude. The diversity of topographical and climatic conditions accounts for the country´s abundant flora and fauna. Austria is one of Europe´s most heavily wooded countries (47% of its surface area)."
(Source: The Federal Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs)

* Austrian National Tourist Office - Official website of the Austrian National Tourist Office providing information in English

FEDERAL PROVINCES
Web pages with tourist information for the individual provinces:

* Burgenland
* Carinthia
* Lower Austria
* Salzburg
* Styria
* Tyrol
* Upper Austria
* Vienna
- Vienna Walks
- Map of Vienna
- Virtual Vienna
* Vorarlberg

TRANSPORTATION

* Vienna International Airport

* Austrian Airlines Group group of Austrian Airlines, Lauda Air, Tyrolean and Rheintalflug

* Austrian Railway Association (ÖBB - Österreichische Bundesbahnen)

NATIONAL PARKS

* Austrian National Parks - Information in German from the homepage of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management on the currently five Austrian national parks
- National Park Hohe Tauern - this national park is the Alps' greatest nature reserve!
- Nationalpark Thayatal - Information in German about this national park in Lower Austria near the border to the Czech
Republic
- National Park Donauauen - The Danube flood plain national park in Austria is a green ribbon between the conurbations of Vienna and Bratislava, and protects the largest coherent natural flood plain area in Central Europe, which is still to a high degree ecologically intact

TRAVEL GUIDES

* Fodor's Miniguides
* Innsbruck
* Salzburg
* Vienna

* Lonely Planet World Guide: Austria
* Time Out City Guide Vienna
* ViennaTicketOnline
* Vienna Classic: Online Ticket Office
*Simskultur.net