AUSTRIA, a Central European county straddled in the pristine Alps mountain range, is divided up into nine states, which are locally known as Bundsländer (plural): Burgenland, Kärnten (Carinthia), Niederösterreich (Lower Austria), Oberösterreich (Upper Austria), Salzburg, Steiermark (Styria), Tirol (Tyrol), Vorarlberg, and Wien (Vienna). There are fifteen statutory cities in Austria; Austria's capital, Vienna (locally known as Wien), is actually both a statutory city and a state. The only state that does not have at least one statutory city is Vorarlberg, in the westernmost part of Austria's horizontal panhandle. Within the nine states, there are a total of 84 political districts, shown in my map as the thin light blue borders. The number of districts does not include the smaller-in-area statutory cities. For example, Innsbruck is a statutory city, while the surrounding Innsbruck Land is a district. Like my maps of the administrative divisions of Bhutan and Poland, I thank the website Global Administrative Areas (GADM.org) for the shapefiles that were used to create this map.
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