Austria

in the center of Europe, it is surrounded by seven countries and is on the crossroad between the North (Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland) and the South (Italy and Yugoslavia), the East and the West. Austria's total boundary is 1600 miles; its total length is 360 miles and its width, 183 miles. The Alps cut across Austria from Switzerland to the Hungarian plains in an east-west direction, thus giving the country a complex topographic pattern which reflects upon distribution of its economic resources, land-use, and distribution of its population. The country is very rugged, as evidenced in the large local relief varying from approximately 11,000 feet to 1500 feet. Three-fourths of Austria's surface may be classified as mountainous, while only 5 per cent could be termed true plain. Because of rugged relief, nearly 11 per cent of the total area is unproductive, the barren portion amounting to 25 per cent in the Hohe Tauern and to 34 per cent in the Central Austrian Alps. Almost 41 per cent of the productive area of Austria is cultivated as

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