Austria Facts
Interesting Facts for Kids
Austria: Hundertwasser Haus – Alps – Vienna
- Population: 9 million people live in Austria (2023)
- Capital: Vienna (Wien) with 2 million inhabitants
- Name: Republik Österreich (Republic of Austria)
- Government: Democracy, Republic
- Language: German
- Literacy: More than 99% can read and write.
- Religion: mainly Christians (Roman Catholics 74%)
- Currency: 1 Euro = 100 cents; before 2002: Austrian Schilling (notes) and Groschen (coins)
- National anthem: Bundeshymne (federal hymn) “Land der Berge” (“Land of mountains”)
- National symbols: Sea eagle (national bird), Edelweiss (national flowers), red and white (national colours)
- National Day: 26 October