Upper Austria is set right in the heart of Europe.
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The Province is bordered by Germany, the Czech Republic, and by the Austrian provinces of Lower Austria, Salzburg and Styria.
Upper Austria, with an area of some 12,000 sq km and a population of approx. 1.3 million, is the fourth-largest Austrian province. It is a mountainous country, nearly half of which is covered with forests, lakes and rivers and mountains. Upper Austria has an excellent network of roads and is serviced by an efficient internal railroad system, thus being a major junction, linking Europe´s North with the South and the West with the East.
