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Location of Austria on a map. What is the capital of Austria? Located in the continent of Europe, Austria covers 82,445 square kilometers of land and 1,426 square kilometers of water, making it the 114th largest nation in the world with a total area of 83,871 square kilometers. Austria was founded as a distinct and original nation in 1282.
It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,879 square kilometres (32,386 sq mi).Austria's terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft).n 1867, the empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary. After the defeat of France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, Austria was left out of the formation of a new German Empire, although in the following decades its politics, and its foreign policy, increasingly converged with those of the Prussian-led Empire.