Vienna

• Vienna, or the charming city, is the capital of Austria and the largest city in it in terms of population; With a population of more than 1.7 million people.

• It is considered the tenth biggest city by population in the European Union.

• Vienna extends over an area of approximately 415 km² at the eastern end of a narrow plain between the Alps and the Carpathian Mountains. It is located in Central Europe, bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany from the north, Hungary and Slovakia from the east, Slovenia and Italy from the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein from the west.

• The Alps occupy two thirds of Austria's area; The capital, Vienna, is considered a green city as the green spaces making up more than the half of its space.

• This name was given to it as a development of its old Latin name Vendobona, which means gentle breeze and beautiful air.

• The city is characterized by its varying climate between the four seasons.

• Vienna is the main industrial city in Austria. Its factories produce clothing, leather products, chemicals, medicines, televisions and radios.

• The city has an excellent transportation system, including suspended trains, trams, subways, and buses.

• Most of the city's residents are Austrians who speak German. There are also minorities of Hungarians and Czechs, most of them speak German besides their national language.

• It was chosen as the best city in the world in terms of quality of life, for five times, in the years: 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, according to Mercer Foundation report.

• Vienna is world-famous as being center of education, science, literature and music, as well as a world center for conferences and a center for various international agencies.

• UNESCO has included Vienna's historic city center in the list of World Historic Reserves; Because of its diverse culture and exceptional art.

• Vienna has many tourist attractions; Where there are more than twenty-seven castles, and more than 150 palaces, the most prominent of which are the historic city center, the Ring Boulevard in the surrounding area, and the Schönbrunn Palace, which contains the oldest zoo in the world, and joined the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1996, and the imperial palace, which includes a group of treasures that are considered the most valuable in the world, and this group includes the imperial crown of Austria, and the crown of the Holy Roman Germanic Empire.