Vienna

Vienna is the capital of and by far its most populous city, with an urban population of 2 million and a metropolitan population of 2.9 million.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Innere Stadt and Vienna International Airport.

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is the inner-most district of Vienna. Its historic centre dates back to Roman ages and has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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is the busiest and biggest airport in . It is just outside the city limits of Vienna on the far side of the City of Schwechat. The airport is the home base of Austrian Airlines.

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Vienna's is an artificial island formed between the river and the Donaukanal. The island contains large expanses of parks and forests, including the famous Prater park with the permanent funfair including the Riesenrad Ferris wheel.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Hietzing and Mariahilf.

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is the 13th district of Vienna. It is located west of the central districts, west of . is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also contains large areas of the , along with .

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is the 6th district of Vienna. Its border to the north is the most famous Viennese shopping street the Mariahilferstrasse, to the west the Gürtel and to the south the Vienna River.

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is the third district of Vienna, the largest of the inner districts. While most tourists arriving by air end up at on their train from the airport, many head immediately towards the ring and .

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is the 9th district of Vienna. is an affluent suburb that includes much of the University of Vienna, several cozy business districts, and several hospitals.

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is the fourth district of Vienna. Its north border is the Vienna river, the Prinz Eugen Straße the east and the Gürtel the south.

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is the north-western part of Vienna containing the districts Penzing, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Ottakring, Hernals, Währing, and Döbling.

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is the 7th district of Vienna. Its border to the south is the popular Mariahilfer Strasse, to the west the Gürtel, and to the north Lerchenfelder Straße. The district contains many artsy places like the Museumsquartier.

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is the 8th district of Vienna. It is bounded on the north side by Alser Straße, by the "2er Linie" on the east, Lerchenfelder Straße on the south, and the Gürtel on the west.

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is the fifth district of Vienna. Its border to the north is the Vienna river, to the west and south the Gürtel.

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is in Vienna, and includes the districts of Favoriten, Simmering, Meidling, and Liesing.

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describes the Vienna districts Floridsdorf and Donaustadt.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Vienna State Opera and Belvedere.

Theater building
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The is an opera house and opera company located in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road.

Park
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The is a historic building complex and art museum in Vienna, Austria. The complex consists of two Baroque palaces, the Upper and Lower , together with the Orangery, the Palace Stables, and a formal Baroque garden.

Church
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St. Stephen's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Vienna, Austria, and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Josef Grünwidl.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Favoriten and Meidling.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is the 12th district of Vienna. It is located just southwest of the central districts, south of the , west of the Gürtel belt, and east and southeast of .

Suburb
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is the 16th District in the city of Vienna, . It is located west of the central districts, north of Penzing and south of . has some heavily populated urban areas with many residential buildings.

Vienna

Latitude
48.2084° or 48° 12′ 30″ north
Longitude
16.3725° or 16° 22′ 21″ east
Population
2,040,000
Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)
IATA airport code
VIE
United Nations Location Code
AT VIE
Open location code
8FWR695F+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17328659
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2761369
Wiki­data ID
Q1741
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Vienna” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Вена”
  • Achinese: “Wina”
  • Adyghe: “Венэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Wene”
  • Albanian: “Viena”
  • Albanian: “Vienë”
  • Albanian: “Vjena”
  • Albanian: “Vjenë”
  • Amharic: “ቪየና”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βιέννη”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Οὐινδόβονα”
  • Arabic: “فيينا”
  • Aragonese: “Viena”
  • Armenian: “Վիեննա”
  • Arpitan: “Vièna”
  • Arpitan: “Viène”
  • Assamese: “ভিয়েনা”
  • Asturian: “Viena”
  • Avaric: “Вена”
  • Aymara: “Wien”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vyana”
  • Balinese: “Wina”
  • Bambara: “Vienna”
  • Bashkir: “Вена”
  • Basque: “Viena”
  • Bavarian: “Wean”
  • Belarusian: “Вена”
  • Bengali: “ভিয়েনা”
  • Betawi: “Wènen”
  • Bislama: “Vienna”
  • Bosnian: “Beč”
  • Breton: “Vienna”
  • Bulgarian: “Виена”
  • Burmese: “ဗီယင်နာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Viena”
  • Cebuano: “Viena”
  • Cebuano: “Vienna”
  • Central Bikol: “Vienna”
  • Central Kanuri: “Vienna”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤیێنا”
  • Chamorro: “Vienna”
  • Chavacano: “Viena”
  • Chechen: “Вена”
  • Chinese: “Wien”
  • Chinese: “維也納”
  • Chinese: “维也纳”
  • Church Slavic: “Вѥнъ”
  • Chuvash: “Вена”
  • Cornish: “Wien”
  • Corsican: “Vienna”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Viyana”
  • Croatian: “Beč”
  • Czech: “Vídeň”
  • Dagbani: “Vienna”
  • Danish: “Wien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wiyana”
  • Dotyali: “भियना”
  • Dutch: “Wenen”
  • Eastern Mari: “Вена”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيينا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤيينا”
  • Erzya: “Вена ош”
  • Esperanto: “Vieno”
  • Estonian: “Viin”
  • Ewe: “Vienna”
  • Extremaduran: “Viena”
  • Faroese: “Wien”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Vienna”
  • Finnish: “Wien”
  • French: “Vienne”
  • Friulian: “Viene”
  • Fulah: “Vienna”
  • Gagauz: “Vena”
  • Galician: “Viena”
  • Georgian: “ვენა”
  • German: “Wien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Vienna”
  • Gothic: “𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐍅𐌹𐌴𐌽”
  • Greek: “Βιέννη”
  • Guarani: “Viéna”
  • Gujarati: “વિયેના”
  • Haitian: “Vyèn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Wien”
  • Hausa: “Vienna”
  • Hebrew: “וינה”
  • Hindi: “वियना”
  • Hungarian: “Bécs”
  • Icelandic: “Vín”
  • Icelandic: “Vínarborg”
  • Ido: “Wien”
  • Iloko: “Vienna”
  • Indonesian: “Wina”
  • Ingush: “Вена”
  • Interlingua: “Vienna”
  • Interlingue: “Vienna”
  • Irish: “Vín”
  • Italian: “Vienna”
  • Japanese: “ウィーン”
  • Japanese: “楽都”
  • Japanese: “維納”
  • Japanese: “音楽の都”
  • Javanese: “Wènen”
  • Javanese: “Wina”
  • Kabiyè: “Fɩyɛɛnɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Vin”
  • Kalaallisut: “Wien”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಯೆನ್ನ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Vena”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Вена”
  • Karekare: “Biyànna”
  • Kazakh: “Вена қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Вена”
  • Kikuyu: “Vienna”
  • Kirghiz: “Вена”
  • Komering: “Wina”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Вин”
  • Komi: “Вена”
  • Korean: “비엔나”
  • Korean: “빈”
  • Kotava: “Wien”
  • Kurdish: “Viyana”
  • Ladin: “Viena”
  • Ladino: “Viena”
  • Latin: “Viennae”
  • Latin: “Vindobona”
  • Latvian: “Vīne”
  • Lezghian: “Вена”
  • Ligurian: “Vienna”
  • Limburgan: “Wene”
  • Lingala: “Viɛnɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Wien”
  • Literary Chinese: “維也納”
  • Lithuanian: “Viena”
  • Livvi: “Vena”
  • Lojban: “vin”
  • Lombard: “Viena”
  • Low German: “Wien”
  • Low German: “Wienen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wien”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Viena”
  • Macedonian: “Виена”
  • Magahi: “वियना”
  • Maithili: “विएना”
  • Malagasy: “Vienna”
  • Malay: “Vienna”
  • Malayalam: “വിയൻ”
  • Malayalam: “വിയന്ന, ഓസ്ട്രിയ”
  • Malayalam: “വിയന്ന”
  • Maltese: “Vjenna”
  • Manipuri: “ꯚꯤꯌꯦꯟꯅꯥ”
  • Manx: “Veen”
  • Maori: “Whiena”
  • Maori: “Wiena”
  • Marathi: “व्हियेना”
  • Mazanderani: “وین”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Vienna”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ûi-iā-la̍p”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wien Chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “Wina”
  • Mingrelian: “ვენა”
  • Moksha: “Виен”
  • Moksha: “Виенна”
  • Mongolian: “Вена”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤيينا”
  • Narom: “Vienne”
  • Nauru: “Vienna”
  • Navajo: “Tsinyiʼ Tóhí”
  • Nepali: “भिएना”
  • Nepali: “भियना”
  • Newari: “भियना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wien”
  • Northern Luri: “وین”
  • Northern Sami: “Wien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wien i Østerrike”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wien, Østerrike”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wien”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wien”
  • Norwegian: “Wien”
  • Novial: “Wien”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Vienna”
  • Nyanja: “Vienna”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Viena”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܝܝܢܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Uigenna”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wīen”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ƿīen”
  • Oriya: “ଭିଏନା”
  • Ossetian: “Венæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਆਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Viena”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Wien”
  • Persian: “وین”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Wien”
  • Picard: “Vienne (Otriche)”
  • Picard: “Vienne”
  • Piemontese: “Vien-a”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Wienna”
  • Polish: “Wiedeń”
  • Portuguese: “Viena”
  • Pushto: “وين”
  • Pushto: “ویانا”
  • Quechua: “Wien”
  • Quechua: “Wiin”
  • Romanian: “Viena”
  • Romansh: “Vienna”
  • Russia Buriat: “Вена”
  • Russia Buriat: “Венэ”
  • Russian: “Вена”
  • Russian: “Виндобона”
  • Russian: “Відень”
  • Rusyn: “Відень”
  • Sakizaya: “Wi-ye-na”
  • Samogitian: “Viena”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱷᱤᱭᱮᱱᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Vienna”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wien”
  • Scots: “Vienna”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vienna”
  • Serbian: “Беч”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beč”
  • Shona: “Vienna”
  • Sicilian: “Vienna”
  • Silesian: “Wjedyń”
  • Silesian: “Wjedźyń”
  • Sindhi: “ويانا”
  • Sinhala: “වියනා”
  • Sinhala: “වියානා”
  • Sinhala: “වීන්”
  • Slovak: “Viedeň”
  • Slovenian: “cesarsko mesto”
  • Slovenian: “Dunaj”
  • Somali: “Fiyena”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویئن”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وین”
  • Southern Sotho: “Vienna”
  • Spanish: “Viena”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵢⵉⵏⵏⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Vienna”
  • Swedish: “Wien”
  • Swiss German: “Wien”
  • Sylheti: “ꠅꠤꠄꠘꠣ”
  • Tagalog: “Viena”
  • Tajik: “Вена”
  • Talysh: “Vijana”
  • Tamil: “வியன்னா”
  • Tatar: “Vena”
  • Tatar: “Вена шәһәре”
  • Tatar: “Вена”
  • Telugu: “వియన్నా”
  • Telugu: “వియెన్నా”
  • Thai: “เวียนนา”
  • Thai: “สตรานชิซ”
  • Tibetan: “ཝི་ཨེ་ན།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Wien”
  • Tumbuka: “Vienna”
  • Turkish: “Beç” (historical)
  • Turkish: “Viyana, Avusturya”
  • Turkish: “Viyana”
  • Turkmen: “Wena”
  • Tuvinian: “Вена”
  • Twi: “Vienna”
  • Twi: “Wien”
  • Udmurt: “Вена”
  • Uighur: “Wyéna”
  • Ukrainian: “Відень”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wien”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wiń”
  • Urdu: “ویانا”
  • Uzbek: “Vena”
  • Venetian: “Viena”
  • Veps: “Ven”
  • Vietnamese: “Viên”
  • Vietnamese: “Vienna, Áo”
  • Vlaams: “Weenn”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bech”
  • Volapük: “Wien”
  • Võro: “Viin”
  • Walloon: “Wîne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vienna”
  • Welsh: “Fiena”
  • Welsh: “Fienna”
  • Western Armenian: “Վիեննա”
  • Western Frisian: “Wenen”
  • Western Mari: “Вена”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویآنا”
  • Wolof: “Wiyen”
  • Wu Chinese: “维也纳”
  • Wu Chinese: “维恩纳”
  • Xhosa: “EVienna”
  • Yakut: “Вена”
  • Yiddish: “וויען”
  • Yoruba: “Fienna”
  • Yue Chinese: “維也納”
  • Zeeuws: “Wenen”
  • Zulu: “i-Vienna”
  • Zulu: “IViyena”
  • “ma tomo Win”
  • “Q1741”
  • “Viena”
  • “Vienna”
  • “Vienne”
  • “Viin”
  • “Wien”
  • “Wina”

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