Popular locations in Austria

Location: Central Europe, north of Italy and Slovenia

Population: 8,199,783 (July 2007 est.)

Religions: Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 3.5%, unspecified 2%, none 12% (2001 census)

Languages: German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene,official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)

National holiday: National Day, 26 October (1955); note - commemorates the passage of the law on permanent neutrality

Currency (code): euro (EUR)

Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003)