Austria is a country that may not come up in the media all the time
But it is an important place with a fascinating culture and people and of course history and today here on FTD facts
We are looking at the great country of Austria and finding out. What is interesting about this country?
It is a country that has its own unique story and has made its own
individual contributions to the world a
Place in people who have their own way of doing things that may be different from the rest of Europe
Hey, everybody what's going on Dave?
Walpa here welcome to FTD facts the channel where we usually talking about people cultures and places from all around the world now
Yeah, we're talking about Ostia because well. We've done some videos on Germany in the last little bit
we've done stuff on other European countries and
For this video actually quite a bit of you guys actually recommended that we talk about Austria
So this is our time to actually do it now keep in mind when we do these videos guys sometimes
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Let's find out what is fascinating about this really unique country known as
Austria and what it is definitely doing different from the rest of the places on the planet so when it comes to Austria it might
Be a country that is very similar to Germany
But that doesn't mean that they are German because the country itself has its own borders and land that stretches out to
83,000
879 kilometers square making the country the
113 largest country in the world and throughout these borders the people of Austria have their own unique rules
And they've got their own different types of people and when it comes to population
they have roughly eight million seven hundred ninety four thousand people ranking 96th in the world with a population density of
104 people per square kilometer
Now of course being next to Germany the main language is German coming in at eighty eight point four percent and about 2.4 percent
Speak Serbian
2.3. Percent speak Turkish and 1.3 percent
Croatian and of course there are many other different languages that are under the one percent however with all these people combined
Approximately 81 percent of all these people are straight-up Austrians, so that's just a basic idea guys when you go oh, yeah
You're probably from Germany. No they're different Austrians are different from Germans now
We did talk about land size
But when it does come to the land
Austria is known to be a very mountainous country with most of the country being a part of the Alps and actually about only
32% of the country is under
1640 feet above sea level, which basically means most of the countries is up very high
But what is the highest point of Austria?
Well that goes to Mount Gross Glockner which is the highest mountain in Austria coming into 12,000?
461 feet she is actually the highest point in the Alps east of Brenner pass
And although people have been living in Europe for a quite a long time and a lot of Europe was
discovered way back in the day this mountain was not documented until
1561 so with all these people living up in very high mountainous area is one thing that
Austrians are known for is Alpine Skiing. What does Alpine Skiing? Well basically, it's downhill skiing
That's right taking skis and going downhill
It's my favorite thing to do
as a matter of fact the people of Austria are known from all around the world for being great downhill skiers with skiing being the
Most prominent sport within the country and one thing that's really important about skiing Austria is pretty much the place where it invented
Modern-day alpine skiing this is because the design for steel edges on skis was invented in
1928 in
Austria as well when it comes to skiing one thing that's really amazing about Austria is the little villages that you can go to
For skiing they just look so quaint and quiet
And I just love these little villages that you can go to and one of the most famous places that you can go for skiing
Is albergue and it's not just famous because of skiing
But this is also the region where Hannes Schneider invented modern-day ski techniques almost a century ago. Now, okay?
We could talk about skiing in Austria for a long time because it's the most prominent sport in the country
And there's just so much history to it, but moving right along one thing. That's fascinating about Austria
Is that on January 1st of 1995 the country did decide to join the European Union?
However, although they're part of the year Union
They're actually not a part of NATO one of the reasons is because when Austria became
Neutralized after the USSR and the Allied countries removed their occupation in
1956 Austria pretty much from thereon
Decided that they just wanted to be a neutral country because of the issues that happened in world war ii
They just didn't want to be a part of anything bad. That would happen in the future
therefore the country swore itself into
Neutrality and remained from war now Austria as a matter of fact C stands at six in the world when it comes to economic
complexity the country makes
141 billion dollars in exports and about a hundred and forty six billion dollars in imports and
Comparing Austria to other countries that we've talked about here on f.2d facts one unique thing about Austria
Is that it doesn't really have a prime import or export?
That's right the country seems to export and import a little bit of everything
Because for example their highest percentage of imports is cars coming in at 5.6 percent and out of all the imports and exports
Austria is labeled as one of the wealthiest countries in the entire world as a matter of fact in 2014 a brizola stood as
21st in the world when it came to the Human Development Index
Scale and this is probably due to the fact that you know Austria has just been a great country
That's been around for such a long time
And it's been such an important place when it comes to history and diving into this history
Slightly when we talk about the country's flag. It is actually one of the oldest in the world although
I was officially adopted in
1918 the style of the flag has been thought to have been adopted by the coat of arms of the babban Bern dynasty
Which is roughly around the 12th and 13th
century and diving even further into this country's past the countries had multiple days in history of Independence even dating back to
976 AD when it became the Margraviate of Austria, but however
It's official year of foundation was in 1804 when it became known as the Austrian Empire as well as diving into their history
Austria is a country that has provided a lot of great
Musical composers from the Classical era you have great composers such as Mozart and even though
Beethoven was born in Germany
He lived in many years in Austria composing music and on top of that. There's also Johann Strauss Joseph Haydn
Franz schubert and the reason for this is because vienna was such a huge important center
Or hub for music way back in the day and actually if we're gonna talk about Vienna
We should probably mention some really cool interesting features about this place for example
It is home to one of if not the world's largest emerald
This is the Emerald alga terian
Which is two thousand eight hundred and sixty carats and it might have been carved out of a Colombian mine in 1641
But it is now on display at the Imperial Treasury in Vienna, Austria
And also when it comes to Vienna the city itself is pretty much completely a UNESCO zone
although Austria may have ten UNESCO zones all over the country with nine of them being
Cultural and one being natural which basically when it comes to its natural zone
That's the primeval forests of the country Vienna is listed as one of the most important cities and listened to as a UNESCO zone
Because of its importance in history and one thing as we mentioned before it just was a place that provided so many great composers in
History and to break it down when it comes to Vienna about
371 hectares or three points 71 km/h
75 percent of it is owned by individual people and 18 percent of it is
publicly owned while 7 percent is owned by the Roman Catholic Church
And you know I don't really want this video to just be focused on Vienna
But there is one thing at Vienna does have that no other country it can ever claim, and I mean Austria can claim it
Too because it's you know within Austria and that is the Tioga dance cog, but in zoo
Which is the world's?
Oldest zoo and not only that but it's also special because it's one of the few zoos in the world that can house the giant
Pandas as well Austria can claim that this zoo had the first panda to be birthed by natural
insemination in all of Europe
and this was baby panda foo which happened on August 23rd of
2007 and on top of that Austria can also claim that they had the first elephant born in captivity on July 14th of
1906 however as for the zoo itself it opened in
1752 like I said making it the world's oldest, zoo
But one thing that's really fascinating about this is that there was also a zoo that existed since
1540 in the same grounds before this Zoo was ever created so this place was just destined to have a zoo there
I don't know and now I'm gonna jump off the Vienna topic because I've been talking about Vienna for so long
But it is a very interesting City
But I got to talk about one thing that
Austria has that no other country can claim and that is the country has the world's longest ice cavern
This is the Austrian East reissen welt caves which are natural limestone caves
And they're sometimes referred to as the world of the ice giants because this long cave goes approximately
42 kilometers deep and although it was officially discovered in 1879 locals did know the cave before
But they refused to explore it because they thought it was an entrance to hell either way this fascinating natural structure attracts over
20,000 tourists a year and is really quite an amazing thing to see so that is just a look at the great country known as
Austria a country that there is just not enough time to talk about when it comes to not only its
Culture but its history which reminds me guys if we forgot anything be sure to let us know down there in the comment section below
Because we generally like to do part twos to our videos and on top of that guys my name is Dave, Wawa
And I want to thank you guys all for joining me here and learning about Austria and for a reoccuring viewers
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Ones out, but this is the country of Austria a nation that is not just amazingly beautiful
But has a history and architecture that stands still today from a time long past a place that has made so much
Contributions to the world both old and new this is the country of Austria a place with a culture and people filled with
sophistication and valor where one may go to the top of the Alps to get a deep breath of the cool crisp mountain air and
Take in the beautiful scenery to reflect on what truly makes us
important
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