Vienna
Vienna is the capital of Austria and by far its most populous city, with an urban population of 2 million and a metropolitan population of 2.9 million.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Innere Stadt and Vienna International Airport.
Innere Stadt
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Innere Stadt 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.
Vienna International Airport
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Vienna International Airport is the busiest and biggest airport in Austria. 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.
Inner East
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Vienna's Inner East 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 Outer West.
Hietzing
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Hietzing is the 13th district of Vienna. It is located west of the central districts, west of Meidling. Hietzing is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also contains large areas of the Vienna Woods, along with Schönbrunn Palace.
Outer West
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Outer West is the north-western part of Vienna containing the districts Penzing, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, Ottakring, Hernals, Währing, and Döbling.
Mariahilf
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Mariahilf 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.
Landstraße
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Landstraße is the third district of Vienna, the largest of the inner districts. While most tourists arriving by air end up at Landstraße on their train from the airport, many head immediately towards the ring and Innere Stadt.
Alsergrund
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Alsergrund is the 9th district of Vienna. Alsergrund is an affluent suburb that includes much of the University of Vienna, several cozy business districts, and several hospitals.
Wieden
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Wieden is the fourth district of Vienna. Its north border is the Vienna river, the Prinz Eugen Straße the east and the Gürtel the south.
Neubau
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Neubau 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 Neubau district contains many artsy places like the Museumsquartier.
Josefstadt
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Josefstadt 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.
Margareten
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Margareten is the fifth district of Vienna. Its border to the north is the Vienna river, to the west and south the Gürtel.
Outer South
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Outer South is in Vienna, and includes the districts of Favoriten, Simmering, Meidling, and Liesing.
Outer East
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Outer East describes the Vienna districts Floridsdorf and Donaustadt.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Vienna State Opera and Belvedere.
Vienna State Opera
Theater building
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The Vienna State Opera is a historic opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road.
Belvedere
Park
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The Belvedere is a historic building complex in Vienna, Austria consisting of two Baroque palaces, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the third district of the city, on the south-eastern edge of its centre.
St. Stephen’s Cathedral
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, Christoph Schönborn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sievering and Lichtental.
Sievering
Suburb
Sievering is a suburb of Vienna and part of Döbling, the 19th district of Vienna. Sievering was created in 1892 out of the two erstwhile independent suburbs Untersievering and Obersievering.
Lichtental
Suburb
Lichtental is a part of the district of Alsergrund, Vienna. It was an independent municipality until 1850.
Vienna Arsenal
Neighborhood
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The Arsenal is a former military complex of buildings in the south-east of Vienna in the third district. Several brick buildings in a rectangle layout make up the complex which is located on a bank south of the Landstraßer Gürtel.
Vienna
- Type: City with 1,920,000 residents
- Description: capital of and state in Austria
- Also known as: “Vienna, Austria”
- Postal codes: 1010, 1020, 1030, 1040, 1050, 1060, 1070, 1080, 1090, 1100, 1110, 1120, 1130, 1140, 1150, 1160, 1170, 1180, 1190, 1200, 1210, 1220, and 1230
- Neighbors: Lower Austria
- Categories: federal capital, statutory city of Austria, federal state of Austria, metropolis, enclave, city-state, municipality of Austria, largest city, district of Austria, place with town rights and privileges, and locality
- Location: Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
48.2084° or 48° 12′ 30″ northLongitude
16.3725° or 16° 22′ 21″ eastPopulation
1,920,000Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)IATA airport code
VIEUnited Nations Location Code
AT VIEOpen location code
8FWR695F+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 17328659OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2761369Wikidata 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”
- Albanian: “Wien”
- 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 Bikol: “Wien”
- 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”
- Czech: “Wien”
- 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”
- Esperanto: “Wien”
- Estonian: “Viin”
- Ewe: “Vienna”
- Extremaduran: “Viena”
- Extremaduran: “Wien”
- Faroese: “Wien”
- Fiji Hindi: “Vienna”
- Finnish: “Wien”
- French: “Vienne”
- French: “Wien”
- Friulian: “Viene”
- Fulah: “Vienna”
- Gagauz: “Vena”
- Galician: “Viena”
- Georgian: “ვენა”
- German: “Wien”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Vienna”
- Gothic: “𐍅𐌹𐌴𐌽”
- Greek: “Βιέννη”
- Guarani: “Viéna”
- Gujarati: “વિયેના”
- Haitian: “Vyèn”
- Hakka Chinese: “Wien”
- Hausa: “Vienna”
- Hebrew: “וינה”
- Hindi: “वियना”
- Hungarian: “Bécs”
- Hungarian: “Vienna”
- Hungarian: “Wien”
- 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: “Vienna”
- Kabyle: “Vin”
- Kalaallisut: “Wien”
- Kannada: “ವಿಯೆನ್ನ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Vena”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Вена”
- 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: “Vienna”
- Latin: “Viennae”
- Latin: “Vindobona”
- Latvian: “Vīne”
- Latvian: “Wien”
- 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”
- 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: “Vienna”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wien Chiu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wien”
- 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”
- Polish: “Wien”
- Portuguese: “Viena”
- Pushto: “وين”
- Pushto: “ویانا”
- Quechua: “Wien”
- 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”
- Slovak: “Wien”
- Slovenian: “cesarsko mesto”
- Slovenian: “Dunaj”
- Slovenian: “Wien”
- Somali: “Fiyena”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویئن”
- South Azerbaijani: “وین”
- Southern Sotho: “Vienna”
- Spanish: “Viena”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵢⵉⵏⵏⴰ”
- Swahili: “Vienna”
- Swedish: “Wien”
- Swiss German: “Wien”
- Tagalog: “Viena”
- Tajik: “Вена”
- Talysh: “Vijana”
- Talysh: “Viyana”
- Tamil: “வியன்னா”
- Tatar: “Vena”
- Tatar: “Вена шәһәре”
- Tatar: “Вена”
- Telugu: “వియన్నా”
- Telugu: “వియెన్నా”
- Thai: “เวียนนา”
- Thai: “สตรานชิซ”
- Tibetan: “ཝི་ཨེ་ན།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Wien”
- Turkish: “Beç” (historical)
- Turkish: “Viyana, Avusturya”
- Turkish: “Viyana”
- Turkish: “Wien”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Vienna”
- Vietnamese: “Wien”
- 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”
- Yoruba: “Vienna”
- Yue Chinese: “維也納”
- Zeeuws: “Wenen”
- Zulu: “i-Vienna”
- “ma tomo Win”
- “Viena”
- “Vienne”
- “Viin”
- “Wien”
- “Wina”
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