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Vienna is located in northeastern Austria, at the easternmost extension of the Alps in the Vienna Basin. The earliest settlement, at the location of today's inner city , was south of the meandering Danube while the city now spans both sides of the river.
- History of Vienna
Vienna grew from the Roman settlement known as Vindobona to...
- Tourist Attractions in Vienna
The tourist attractions of Vienna concentrate in three...
- Vienna International Airport
Vienna Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) is an international...
- Café Savoy
Café Savoy. The Café Savoy (formerly Café Wienzeile) is a...
- Vienna (Disambiguation)
Vienna is the capital and a federal state of Austria. Vienna...
- Demographics of Austria
Demographic features of the population of Austria include...
- Sixth-Largest
Berlin, the most populous city in the European Union as of...
- Vienna City Hall
Vienna City Hall (German: Wiener Rathaus) is the seat of...
- Provinces of Austria
The majority of the land area in the federal states of Upper...
- Hofburg
The Hofburg (German: [hoːf.buʁk]) is the former principal...
- History of Vienna
3 days ago · Vienna, city and federal state, the capital of Austria. Of the country’s nine states, Vienna is the smallest in area but the largest in population. From 1558 to 1918 it was an imperial city—until 1806 the seat of the Holy Roman Empire and then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Vienna grew from the Roman settlement known as Vindobona to be an important trading site in the 11th century. It became the capital of the Babenberg dynasty and subsequently of the Austrian Habsburgs, under whom it became one of Europe's cultural hubs.
Vienna (/ viˈɛnə / (listen); [9][10] German: Wien [viːn] (listen); Central Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]; Viennese German and Austrian German: Wian [vɪa:n]) is the capital and largest city of Austria. It is also one of Austria's nine states. It is in the east of the country on the river Danube.
The tourist attractions of Vienna concentrate in three distinct areas. The largest cluster, centred on Schönbrunn Palace, attracted around five million visitors in 2009, down from six million in 2008.
Rank 2009PlaceVisitors(2006 [ 15])Visitors(2007 [ 16])1Schönbrunn Palace [ note 3] Suburban ...2,507,0002.590.0002Tiergarten Schönbrunn [ note 4] World's ...2,270,9962,453,9873Wiener Riesenrad The Ferris wheel in ...620,000620,0004Albertina Museum of classical graphic ...725,759557,307Vienna (German: Wien; Austro-Bavarian: Wean) is the capital of Austria and by far its most populous city, with an urban population of 2 million and a metropolitan population of 2.9 million (2023). It is the country's artistic, cultural, economic and political centre.
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Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria. It is also one of Austria's nine states.