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| | Austria |
 | | Austria is divided into nine provinces, Vorarlberg, Tirol, Salzburg, Upper Austria, Carinthia, Styria, Burgenland, Lower Austria, and Vienna, the capital city and a major river port on the Danube. |
 | | Austria has one of the world's lowest birthrates, and much of the population is under age twenty-five or over sixty-five. |
 | | Austria emerged as a distinct political entity in 976 when Otto II gave the area to the Bavarian nobleman Leopold of Babenberg, largely to keep the Magyars at bay. |
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