Austria

Austria

Austria ranks 17th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind China, Canada, and Turkey. Memorable people born in present day Austria include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adolf Hitler, and Franz Kafka. Memorable people who died in Austria include Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Antonio Vivaldi. Austria has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and composers.

Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital Vienna, the largest city and state by population. The country is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. It occupies a landlocked area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi) and has a population of 9 million people. Read more on Wikipedia