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| | Austria |
 | | The Austrian parliament consists of two chambers, the Bundesrat (federal council), which consists of 64 representatives of the states, based on population, and the Nationalrat (national council), which has 183 directly elected members. |
 | | About ten percent of the Austrians are of non-Austrian descent, many from surrounding countries, especially from the former East Bloc nations. |
 | | The official language, German, is spoken by everybody; the dialect is similar to that spoken in southern Germany. |
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